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...news conference at Logan Airport last week a Harvard Business School student accompanied by long-haired students and a short-shorn philosophy professor, announced the birth of a Massachusetts Libertarian Party which espouses a number of leftist-sounding causes and is running John Hospers chairman of the Philosophy Department of the University of Southern California, as its presidential candidate...
...film will be temporarily withdrawn from theaters to allow the censors' scissors to transform it from an X- to an R-rated movie (children under 17 admitted with parent or guardian). After 60 days Clockwork will emerge from the Motion Picture Association of America's purification rite shorn of its scarlet letter, and two "explicit" sex scenes totaling 30 seconds. One is a bedroom romp involving Alex and two willing girls; the other shows soldiers raping a girl. The changes, Warner Bros, hopes, will attract a wider audience. Some theaters refuse to show X movies, and an increasing...
...Ulster Defense Regiment, the largely Protestant provincial militia, was kidnaped and murdered, and his body booby-trapped with 475 Ibs. of explosives (a British bomb-disposal squad successfully dismantled the devices). In addition, two teen-age girls who are engaged to British soldiers were abducted by I.R.A. women, shorn of their hair, and daubed with paint and feathers...
What of West Pakistan? The loss of East Pakistan will no doubt be a tremendous blow to its spirit and a destabilizing factor in its politics. But the Islamabad regime, shorn of a region that was politically, logistically and militarily difficult to manage and stripped down to a population of 58 million, may prove a much more homogeneous unit. In that sense, the breakup could prove to be a blessing in disguise. Both nations, moreover, might be expected to get considerable foreign aid to help them back onto their feet...
...ruler in an unbroken line that stretches back 2,600 years. He was considered "sacred and inviolable" in prewar Japan; under the constitution imposed on Japan after the war, he became no more than a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people." As a figure shorn of real power, the Emperor carefully avoids political discussions. The list of acceptable topics for discussion at Elmendorf, therefore, consists of little more than anecdotes about Nixon's six earlier visits to Japan and, of course, expressions of mutual regard...