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Newborn babies and all aside, Politicks is a good magazine; it would be nice if it could survive along with the other bi-weekly politics and arts journals like The Nation and The New Republic. Its difficulties should smooth out, and if Morgan can snare some other old friends from the Voice to write--like Jack Newfield, for instance--it can become solid reading about politics that have a focus--at least as much as they can in America--away from Washington. If not, then we'll be left with the lawn sprinkler evaluations, sandwiched in with reviews...
Honey trap: counterintelligence snare with male or female sexual bait...
...bells sounded the appointed hour of 11 o'clock on June 28, and the snare drums rolled darkly for Sergeant Thomas Hickey. All the buttons had been slashed from his uniform coat, and the red epaulet from his right shoulder. The 80 soldiers in the ceremonial guard stood at attention, bayonets fixed. A crowd of thousands had gathered in a field just off New York's Bowery Lane to watch Sergeant Hickey die on the gallows. The condemned man was "unaffected and obstinate to the last," Artillary Surgeon William Eustis reported later, "except that when the chaplain took...
...President Ford and Ronald Reagan, each of whom won three primaries last week, will emerge from the delegate selection process just short of the 1,130 delegates required for the Republican nomination. Democrat Jimmy Carter is expected to be several hundred delegates short of the 1,505 needed to snare the prize...
...Nobody else is going to pay for mass transit. If we wait for the Federal Government, it will be two centuries before the job gets done." Even so, the proposal has been rushed onto the ballot partly because Ward hopes that an affirmative vote will enable Los Angeles to snare $800 million in unallocated federal transit-aid funds before some other area gets the money...