Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humane treatment of convicts. The President returned to the old constitutional phrase, he said, because "I do not seek vindictive punishment of the criminal, but protection of the victim." Nor was crime, he noted, always committed on the street or in dark alleys. Alluding to the misdeeds of his predecessor, he said: "I have made it a matter of the highest priority to-restore to the Executive Branch decency, honesty and adherence to the law at all levels ... There is no way to inculcate in society the spirit of law if society's leaders are not scrupulously law-abiding...
Former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was in New York City; so was Chaim Herzog, Israel's Ambassador-designate to the U.N. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon had been in the U.S. and gone already, as had his predecessor Abba Eban and Itzhak Navon, chairman of the Knesset's committee on foreign affairs and security. Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi and Minister of Justice Haim Zadok flew in at week's end, while Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, and Supreme Court Justice Haim Conn were packing their bags. Small wonder if Premier Yitzhak Rabin felt lonely in Jerusalem...
...ordinations. The national head of the church, Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, who was subpoenaed for the defense, refused to appear; as a result, at week's end he was cited for contempt by the five-judge ecclesiastical court. That left as the star witness his predecessor as presiding bishop, John Hines. When Stringfellow asked Hines his opinion of the ordinations, he replied: "I believe them to be valid but irregular." Hines, however, stated that a bishop can refuse to license an ordained minister to perform priestly functions...
Ford meets the press often, and the encounter is sometimes painful. He was brutally challenged by reporters after he granted the pardon to his predecessor. He has been bluntly asked on TV whether he is smart enough to be President, a rude question that would not have been asked of most of his predecessors. But Ford accepts the brickbats as part of his job. It would be inconceivable for him to cancel a subscription to a newspaper* that offended him, as John Kennedy did, or denounce individual reporters in the manner of Lyndon Johnson, much less put wiretaps on newsmen...
Seen without regard to its predecessor, Shardik resembles good science fiction, unsatisfactorily diluted with Victorian romanticism. The author postulates a tribe of Iron Age men called Ortelgans, in ancient times the builders and rulers of a splendid city called Bekla, but now, because of military and moral decline, a ragtag band of hunters huddling fearfully on a river island at the edge of the Beklan empire. The planet is earth, but the local geography is all of the author's making, and he has great fun with maps, invented place names and at least four different languages...