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...Harrington is serious about a column, she might consider one about women and the law. Along with other benefits, it could shake up some of her peers. She might explain the immediate practical need for the ERA ("We are probably not going to see many more gains without some major legal change such as the ERA": Donna Lenhoff of Washington's Women's Legal Defense Fund. "I think we have gone as far as we can under the 14th Amendment": Gail Harmon, president of the fund). She might point out that the Supreme Court, lacking any clear standard...
People will shake their heads at the Hinckley jurors for the rest of their days. Except for the probable cheers of the American Civil Liberties Union, the dozen men and women who freed John Hinckley after four days of deliberations made no friends by pardoning his sins...
Such moments adroitly balance the exotic and the familiar; an adventure that will shake Moscow and Washington also leads to a personal discovery, and both results seem equally important. In his fourth novel, Carroll again reveals the commercial instincts that made his Mortal Friends (1978) a best seller. In addition, this book reveals a serious novelist behind the popular entertainer. Like Graham Greene and John le Carre, Carroll brings global strife and problems home to hearts and minds, their points of origin. -By Paul Gray
...afraid of what the future may hold for you," he said. "I say to you: Place your lives in the hands of Jesus. . . He will make such use of your lives as will be beyond your greatest expectations . . . Do not let the sight of the world in turmoil shake your confidence in Jesus. Not even the threat of nuclear war." Like the speech containing similar moral lessons the previous Saturday at Wembley Stadium, which was interrupted 25 times with warm applause from a youthful audience, his strict admonitions against self-indulgence and "sexual irresponsibility" were received with surprising equanimity...
...tremendous danger of losing control of these forces. Battlefield weapons on the European frontier, for example, present the threat of elevating a conventional conflict to a type of war that even the most experienced generals concede is almost impossible to visualize. Proliferation to nations with no shake in or conception of global nuclear balance has yet to raise a specific threat, but within the next two decades it will occur unless the superpowers cut off the arms race and redirect intellectual and technical power toward peaceful purposes...