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...electric current for much of the nation, route long-distance telephone calls, set newspaper type, even dictate just how sausage is made. They navigate ships and planes, mix cakes and cement, prepare weather forecasts, check income tax returns, direct city traffic and diagnose human-and machine-ailments. They render unto Caesar by sending out the monthly bills and reading the squiggly hieroglyphics on bank checks, and unto God by counting the ballots of the world's Catholic bishops at sessions of the Ecumenical Council in St. Peter's Basilica...
...must never be called or war declared. "For the first time in history," writes Aron, "entire weapons systems, developed at the cost of billions of dollars, are retired without ever having been put to any but purely diplomatic use; or we might say that their purpose is precisely to render their military use superfluovis." As for Charles de Gaulle's force de frappe, Aron argues that it reflects a new Maginot Line psychology, seeking security behind a pitifully inadequate nuclear arsenal that could conceivably invite attack. Aron is not necessarily opposed to France's nuclear force...
...this ambitious documentary understandably bogs down. Struggling to render a superbly organized book in capsule form, it is limited to film available in archives, all of it at least half a century old. The result is too often a barrage of names and statistics, accompanied by endless cycles of grainy newsreel footage: statesmen shake hands, famous field marshals solemnly confer, the 14-in. guns boom and recoil, the tanks rumble, the infantry scatters. And the audience fidgets, uneasily aware that the horrors of war have begun to seem less tragic than tiresome, and that a picture is sometimes less eloquent...
Pulled Switches. The problem has been hotly argued. Like the U.S. Constitution, West Germany's constitution bans ex post facto laws-typically, laws passed to render an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable before. The Justice Ministry holds that extension of the statute of limitations would be just such a law. Some German jurists disagree: they say that extension is perfectly legal if it covers all defendants, not merely Nazis. But the goal would still be Nazis, and the Justice Ministry sees this as unconstitutional discrimination...
Voluntary Codes. Whatever the Supreme Court's decision in the Billie Sol Estes appeal, the television industry has yet to demonstrate the ability to render the TV camera as unobtrusive a court visitor as the pen-and-pencil newsman And whatever view the Justices take about the big eye's right to be considered a court reporter, their ruling promises to have powerful impact on the profession of journalism, which is jealously possessive of its freedom...