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...rule, American courts shy away from handing down a far-reaching decision on a constitutional question if they can find another solution. Better to search for a compromise than to spell out a judgment that could cause unforeseen problems later...
WASHINGTON and the people should be grateful to the president not only for putting George Allen on local TV, but also for shattering the spell Watergate has cast over us. The exploits of the Ervin committee often forced us to ignore the complexities of Return to Peyton Place or the cruel twists of fate of Let's Make a Deal; more importantly, this new horrifying talk show also pushed other horrors off front pages and out of prime time...
...maneuverings of multinational companies and the monetary crises created by big-power policies. After calling for a common monetary policy among developing nations, he concluded: "Our political independence will remain illusory unless we achieve a true economic liberation." In a draft economic declaration, the Algerian delegation went on to spell out a kind of couscous brand of nonalignment; it urged recognition of the right of Third World countries to nationalize foreign companies and a redefinition of the role of the World Bank so that its financial resources would be more equitably distributed...
...benefit, to strengthen his regime and keep the South independent of the North. That independence has already brought a measure of stability to Southeast Asia. Singapore's tough Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, acknowledged this last spring, remarking: "The American intervention in Viet Nam has broken the hypnotic spell on the other Southeast Asians that Communism is irresistible, that it is the wave of history. Communist victory was demonstrated not to be inevitable." With the bombing ended, Lee acknowledged early this month that he was now "in a more uncomfortable position." To reassure him and other Southeast Asians...
...called it the Kozmic Blues -"You have to spell it that way; it's too heavy to be taken seriously," she said. Faced with the prospect of solitary nights in motel rooms, the world's greatest female rock star turned in desperation to lovers of either sex. One lesbian affair, which went on sporadically over the last two years of her life, was with a groupie named Peggy Caserta, who describes it all with fulsome vulgarity and very little insight in Going Down With Janis (Lyle Stuart...