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Although Fallows expects to return to journalism after Novermber 2 no matter who triumphs, he does not use the brevity of his tenure to sidestep inquiries about his passage from The Crimson to the Carter campaign. In a series of interviews last week, as he accompanied Carter in a swing through Florida, North Carolina and New York, Fallows detailed the changes in his temperament and in the political atmosphere of the country that led him to join Carter's entourage...
...land for the park was sold to the city in the 1920s and 1930s by the estate of former Texas Governor James S. Hogg. There was one proviso: if the land was ever used for other than "park purposes," it would revert to the estate. To sidestep that restriction, the Governor's daughter, Ima Hogg, signed over the estate's drilling rights shortly before her death last year to an old friend, George R. Brown, president of Brownco Inc., a Houston-based drilling company...
These are dangers that Gill's book does not always sidestep. In truth, he sometimes rushes to embrace them: "It is obvious that the New Testament would make far more satisfactory reading if it had been the handiwork of Matthew, Mark, Luke and Shawn...
Islam's heartfelt but unanswered plea dramatically highlighted the conflict over priorities that characterized the conference from its opening day. Building on the momentum generated by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visionary plea for international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 18), the delegates chose to sidestep current problems and concentrate instead on trying to develop organizational mechanisms that would cope with future crises...
...issue that the Caracas delegates have chosen mainly to sidestep is pollution. The conference should settle a basic jurisdictional point: whether a coastal nation with strong laws to protect its marine environment-most notably Canada-has a right to bar polluting vessels from its waters. But oil tankers and other ships account for only 10% of the ocean's contaminants. The other 90% of the pollutants come from the land, and that, the conferees decided, is out of their territory...