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Unfortunately, the task of cementing a durable peace in Indochina will be more arduous than deciding that talks per se are worthwhile. There is little reason to believe that the United States and North Vietnam agree on anything besides the current utility of initiating peace talks in the hope that a permanent case-fire can be arranged...
...this spring in order to re establish international confidence in the pound. But, as Britons discovered last week, no one had guessed quite how tough. In a commanding and convinc ing 135-minute speech, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins spelled out new fiscal measures that are the most se vere since the Depression year of 1930. They will levy on already heavily bur dened Britons a total of $4 billion in new taxes during the next 21 months. Said the Times of London: "Nasty-but necessary...
...Essentially Evil." Under a stringent new Law and Order Maintenance Act that makes even the possession of terrorist weapons a capital offense, the number of Africans awaiting execution in Rhodesia has risen to 115 since se cession (v. only twelve before). Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime, unsure of its authority and fearful of casting itself in the role of judicial murderer, had refrained from carrying out the sentences. Then, two weeks ago, Rhodesia's high court ruled that the noose could be used, since the Smith regime was a de facto government. British Prime Minister...
...Citizen and the Star had eliminated all newspaper competition in the area. After the 1940 agreement, advertising rates had been raised a dozen times while the papers' profits were increasing. Walsh concluded that joint operation "constitutes a price fixing, profit pooling and market allocation agreement illegal per se under Section I of the Sherman Act." The subsequent merger, continued the judge, represents a "conspiracy to monopolize the daily newspaper business in Tucson," a violation of the Clayton...
...force the enrollment of Negroes in South Carolina's primaries so inflamed local whites that they stoned his house in Charleston, burned crosses on his lawn, and ostracized him from society. The judge stood firm and went on to argue in a 1951 opinion that school segregation per se is inequality -an idea later upheld in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling...