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...dramatize the agony of black confinement is fair enough, but nowadays the ghetto can be as chic as Fifth Avenue. In their self-indulgent militancy, black playwrights of Van Peebles' frenzied stamp like to think that they are raising welts on The Man's conscience. Actually, they are catering to a masochistic mea culpa claque and assorted liberal breast beaters...
...leaflet lists as the local FBI telephone number 535-7700--the number of the FBI office in New York City. However, on the leaflets distributed in Boston, the number has been penciled out and a stamp gives the number 742-5533--the number of the Boston office...
Certainly the Administration faces harder going in the Senate than in the House. Almost all the Democratic presidential aspirants are Senators, and several are itching to put their personal stamp on the bill. They will likely concentrate on giving more tax breaks to individuals, a job that Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long last week said the upper house is "in the mood" to perform. As passed by the House, the Nixon measure already provides some tax reduction for individuals. A family of four with an income of $15,000 would save about $22 on its income tax bill for this...
...countrymen seem to disagree. In telling contrast to the cheering crowd in the Plaza de Oriente, slightly more than half the eligible voters turned out for last week's election to the Cortes, or parliament. Only a fifth of the seats in the largely rubber-stamp assembly are filled by direct ballot, and half the 230 candidates already held government posts or were dependent upon the regime for their jobs...
...make it seem more democratic, the three rulers sent their voters to the polls last week in a rubber-stamp referendum in which 98% approved of the new arrangement. Gaddafi, the most junior but the noisiest partner, told his Libyans: "As you march to the polls today, you march to Golan and the West Bank, to the mosque of Al-Aqsa and to Jerusalem." But the federation is not expected to alter the military balance in the Middle East. Unlike Libya, the other two partners face Israeli guns across cease-fire lines; then, too, Egypt's Sadat has indicated...