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Serious Difficulties. With greater or less enthusiasm, the Social Democrats and Kiesinger favor 1) signing the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, 2) banning Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden's reactionary National Democrats in order to deprive neo-Nazis of a shield of respectability, and 3) eliminating the legal deadline on murder charges to allow the judiciary to weed out the last remaining Nazi war criminals. Strauss takes the opposite position on each issue, and has been using his growing strength in his Hausmacht (power base) to give weight to his views...
...Arito-marchi, laces his pabulum with Tabasco. "La France est a moi," says young Charles as he plays soldiers, grabbing the French poilus for himself, while forcing his brothers to take the Ger man and English sides. There is another happy scene of Charles playing pyramid-standing on a shield held by his playmates. And on and on. The caption, beside a picture of De Gaulle nestled in a huge Mexican sombrero, announces that "The general travels a lot. In Mexico, he was a success because he sings in Spanish." Every Frenchman knows that De Gaulle sings only the Marseillaise...
...Brien aboard Air Force One, "the Roman consuls left Caesar on his shield and sat with Johnson, listening...
Back in the era of Senator Joe McCarthy, says Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Fifth Amendment served as a shield for people whose only crime was leftist political associations. Indeed, says Friendly, the amendment's main purpose was to give the protective privilege of silence to those persecuted for heresy, nonconformity and political crimes. "This is the privilege we love," says Friendly...
They must shield prospective targets against thunderous shock waves, searing heat, deadly X rays, gamma rays and neutrons. They must also guard against a lesser-known product of atomic explosions called electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. In a recent Washington speech, Senator Henry Jackson, atomic-weapons specialist of the Armed Services Committee, insisted that despite five years of research, EMP still poses a "serious problem" to the nation's communications, radar and missile systems...