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...court is divided and groping over questions like abortion and affirmative action, so is the country. And while it is difficult to predict what the court will do in general "liberal" or "conservative" terms, the voting records of the individual Justices are quite consistent. For instance, Justice Stewart usually votes liberal on criminal rights, conservative on race; Byron White votes just the other way. The only truly fickle Justice is the Chief Justice. He likes to be in the majority...
...CHINA, they say, scientists are learning to predict earthquakes by studying barnyard animals. When the pigs snort and hens cackle nervously, researchers know the tectonic plates will soon commence to bump and grind, and the earth to heave...
Although those who fail to register face prison terms of five years and fines up to $10.000, opponents predict that at least 10 per cent of the four million men affected will refuse to register...
Moreover, the Western nations are increasingly at the mercy of political events they cannot control. OPEC production could be sharply reduced or cut off entirely by Soviet incursions into the Persian Gulf, internal revolutions like Iran's or the disintegration of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. "Nobody can predict when and how the governmental, social and cultural systems in the various countries will change," writes Levy, "but change they will, and, more likely than not, by convulsions or revolutions...
Will Moscow's two-track policy of Russification and Sovietization enable the U.S.S.R. to survive as the world's last multinational empire? Some Western experts, with more than a touch of wishful thinking in their speculation, predict that the U.S.S.R. will come apart along its Muslim seams in the south and east. Others, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, also look for trouble in Eastern Europe, particularly in Brzezinski's native Poland. Columbia University's Seweryn Bialer agrees. Until now, he says, the Soviets have been fortunate that uprisings have broken out in only one country at a time...