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...applied had been allowed to leave. Although Soviet emigration policy has eased markedly under pressure from the U.S., some of the Congressmen feared that the liberalization might end if M.F.N. were granted. Asked about this, Brezhnev declared: "We came here to consolidate good things, not to quarrel. We can stay at home and quarrel. I cannot understand why these things should impair good relations between us." The legislators were by no means entirely persuaded, and there was no immediate sign that they were willing to compromise on the issue...
Odessans call Dr. Stanford "the God of Garbage." He does not quarrel with the title. Sipping wine in his Houston home, he talks of using wastes to transform wastelands everywhere. The day will come, he confidently predicts, when London will fly its garbage to Saudi Arabia in trade...
...kitchen table at 2 a.m., which might once have ended in a punch in the nose, has a good chance of ending with a bullet in the gut. The police log offers these samples: an argument in the Red Dog Bar, a disagreement in Cherry's Poolroom, a quarrel over the whereabouts of the money from the welfare check, an argument over rent. Narcotics were involved in 10% to 12% of the homicides; most of the victims and the murderers were black; one-third of the crimes remain unsolved. The majority of the murders continue to be the work...
Berger spent the last 20 months examining parliamentary debates from 1621 to 1742. "This is not a petty quarrel between two branches of government," he said. "Congress must have information in order to act effectively, and that depends on getting rid of Ceasarism...
...liberated woman can rush to a meeting leaving her black maid at home to look after the children, get there and look around and ask, 'But where are all our black sisters?' " Editor Lewis sees the Women's Lib movement as nothing more than "a family quarrel between white women and white men." She cautions that outsiders who interfere in family disputes "always get shafted when the dust settles...