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...murders, they still could not directly charge them with the slayings. Murder is a state offense, except on federal property, and the Mississippians were therefore beyond the jurisdictional reach of the Federal Government so far as murder was concerned. So 19 of the 21 arrested?including Rainey and Price???were charged under a section of an 1870 law that was passed, ironically, to control Klan terrorism nearly a century ago. Titled "Conspiracy Against Rights of Citizens," it reads: "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment...
...some degree inherent in many parts of an advanced industrial society, had a common-sense acceptance as inevitable. But the price of progress, like the price of anything, has a ceiling, and for the nuclear power industry, the radioactive gases drifting from Three Mile Island have undeniably raised the price???and public consciousness about the risks?of nuclear power. Just how high rests in large measure on how Pennsylvania's nightmare ends...
...responsibility to contain Communism. As Harvard Political Scientist Stanley Hoffmann observes, "The external development of the 1960s made obsolete the strategy that had been devised in the late 1940s. The war in Viet Nam destroyed the consensus. In a way, this may have been a service?at what a price???for it forced Americans to face the obsolescence of policy earlier than they probably otherwise would have...
...risk of "re-educating the public and congressional opinion about Communism." If Nixon and his predecessors, it now seems clear, had not spoken so often about the need for "victory" and the humiliation of "defeat," and had more coolly assessed the real stakes?as well as the terrible price???in Viet Nam, there would be less trauma over withdrawal and countless lives might have been saved...
...weekend is a way of life, the long lunch more and more a relic of the past. Huge supermarket chains dispense packaged, preprocessed foods at a speed?and a price???that is fast making the kitchen stockpot and the corner charcuterie obsolete. In Paris, said newspaper ads last week, 300,000 people have already seen Steve McQueen in Bullitt, and the lines are still long. A house specialty of Le Drug Store, now ten years old and still In, is an ice cream sundae with chocolate sauce and a shot of bourbon. They call the result "Coupe Old Crow...