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MASSACHUSETTS' MICHAEL DUKAKIS, 41, is a new kind of Democratic politician in a state that has seen all breeds and mutations. He is a political technocrat, a bright and self-righteous reformer who declared that upon becoming Governor, "the first thing I'm going to do is to begin to introduce the idea of productivity and efficiency goals and standards into state government." Dukakis spent eight energetic years in the legislature, where he sponsored the nation's first no-fault automobile insurance. Then he burnished his image for two years as the moderator of The Advocates...
...been for the vetoes, South Africa would have been a victim of the U.N.'s peculiar double standard-racism practiced by white regimes is bad, but the racism of black governments is somehow permissible. In his address, Botha suggested that some morally righteous U.N. countries might profit from closer scrutiny of their own recent histories. Explaining the U.S. veto, Ambassador John Scali argued that the expulsion of South Africa would create "a shattering precedent" that might be invoked against any U.N. nation out of political step with majority sentiment. According to diplomatic sources, the possibility of an Afro-Arab...
...newspapers and magazines, Shaw cited several examples of fine, thoughtful journalism. On the whole, however, he concluded that the nation's best journals had approached euphoria in their upbeat reportage and commentary when Ford first took office. Partly as a result, there was an excess of righteous outrage when Ford astonished the press, and everyone else, by pardoning Richard Nixon in September. In the interim, insufficient attention was paid to the complexity of the nation's difficult economic problems...
Alan's father is a do-gooding socialist printer and a self-righteous authoritarian moralist who gets his after-hours kicks at skin flicks. At the stable where he works on weekends, Alan is sexually aroused by a pert, enticing co-employee (Roberta Maxwell). In a nude scene that precedes the play's climax, they try to make love but Alan falters. He feels that the eyes of his gods watch and condemn him. Then the horror begins...
Brown's small staff discovered that the deed had been predated and notarized by Nixon's California lawyer, Frank DeMarco. The resulting story put Brown's sternly righteous face on front pages across the country...