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...Russian Jews would have had no hope." Despite last week's turnabouts in Spain and the Soviet Union, however, Woodrow Wilson's conviction that "opinion ultimately governs the world" remains eminently debatable. Though it helped to stay the firing squads in Burgos and Leningrad, that fact holds scant comfort for the 26 convicted dissidents, who still face long and harsh years of imprisonment despite their year-end rescue from execution...
...notice the mess. West Germans give low priority to the fate of Lake Constance, the country's biggest source of fresh water. Last summer the water turned reddish-brown; experts say that Constance is going the way of "dead" Lake Erie. Communist countries are also racing for industrialization, with scant care for the impact on nature. Even Red China admitted last year that its cities had environmental problems. The official dispatches sounded almost smug?as if combatting pollution was a badge of progress...
...identical sampling taken a month later. In this trial, Nixon squeaked by the Democratic front runner, 44% to 43%. Whether the difference is due to increased presidential popularity or to the vagaries of polltaking two years before the event is difficult to know. In any case, there can be scant comfort in the new survey for the White House, since Gallup, like Harris, found the undecided vote to be 4%, making Nixon's 1% margin rather fragile...
Cranston and Saxbe decided to work quietly and concentrate on step-by-step changes the would stir scant controversy. They enlisted the help of Hughes, a former Governor who felt helpless as a Senator ("You have no command. You have to do what other people decide at their times"), and Schweiker, who had served eight years in the House and was struck by how much more slowly the Senate moved...
...that Mrs. Gandhi will not allow the court's ruling to stand. Although Parliament adjourned last weekend, she may well introduce at the next session new legislation designed to circumvent the judges' objections. Such a bill might easily pass next time, since it initially failed by a scant one-third of a vote to get the required two-thirds majority in the Rajya Sabha, Parliament's upper house. There are even rumors that she may dissolve Parliament and call for new elections, using the ruling on the princes as a rallying point to gain a larger majority...