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...District Judge Barrington Parker suspended work on the project by granting a preliminary injunction brought by the lawyers of the Environmental Defense Fund. The judge rejected the corps's defense that it was merely acting as the agent of Congress, which cannot be sued unless it waives "sovereign immunity." He ruled that the corps had in fact not complied with the National Environmental Policy Act. Now that Nixon has stopped the project entirely, the next step will be for government bodies and environmentalists to work out what to do with both the completed parts of the waterway...
Sacred and Inviolable. In his personal life and his earlier writings, Mishima had openly expressed his despair over the materialistic decadence that he saw in the Westernization of his country. Largely at fault, he felt, was the U.S.-imposed constitution, which "forever renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation." Mishima wanted the prewar constitution restored so that the Emperor would once again be "sacred and inviolable" and so that Japan could regain the honor it had lost in its defeat. To that end, he created his private army, which numbered fewer than 100 young men, trained regularly...
Even so, the average porn paperback costs no more than 25? to produce. The publisher then sells it for about $1 to wholesalers like Cleveland's giant Sovereign News Co. The shortest end of the take goes to the authors-some of them teachers, housewives and journalists-who are lucky to clear $250 a book. Chicago's Loop now has about 20 "adult" bookstores, which also sell records, playing cards and other assorted forms of erotica; San Francisco has 60 stores, and Los Angeles...
...East Germans began handing out prison sentences to American and other Western students in September. That was shortly after the Soviets signed the Treaty of Moscow, which angered Ulbricht by failing to insist on West German recognition of East Germany as a totally independent and fully sovereign state. Last week, a closed court in East Berlin sentenced two more students to long terms...
...Justice Department has now issued a reply attacking the conservationists' suit on strictly legal grounds. According to Justice, the plaintiffs have no legal right to bring suit against the Department of Agriculture, because it enjoys "sovereign immunity." They also claim that the suit is premature, since the program has not yet been finally approved or funded. Furthermore, for a variety of technical reasons, it is impossible for the plaintiffs to claim that they represent "all citizens . . ." Therefore, Justice argues, the entire suit should be dismissed...