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Impeachment was meant to be an integral part of our governmental system, a constitutional method for redressing wrongs committed by the country's high officials. We suffer no dearth of precedents (they fill over 2000 pages in House and Senate record books), and no lack of officials capable of presiding over the proceedings. But when the nation itself is in a period of profound social turmoil--as in the years of our impeached but unconvicted president, Andrew Johnson, and now--any challenge to even the temporary power holders seems to threaten disaster. Clearly, the Founding Fathers intended impeachment...
...smokers who breathe "second-hand smoke" (the Surgeon General calls it "passive inhalation") suffer the same adverse consequences as smokers. Seconds after breathing cigarette smoke, the non-smoker's heart beats faster, his blood pressure rises, and the carbon monoxide in his blood increases. The non-smoker might even face a greater danger from cigarettes than the smoker. The cigarette filter often protects the smoker; the non-smoker has no such protection and must breathe the smoke that wafts his way from the cigarette's end. That unfiltered smoke contains more cadmium than is contained in filtered smoke. (Cadmium...
...whisky alone could float the government." Many Scots resent the fact that they hold few influential positions in the south, while Englishmen control many of the best jobs in Scotland. Despite net emigration losses totaling nearly 20% of the population since the mid-'50s, the Scots suffer an unemployment rate twice as high as, and a standard of living 12% lower than, the rest of Britain. Despite the idyllic beauty of much of Scotland, cities like Glasgow are scarred by ugly slum districts...
...people who actually brought off the original stickup suffer assorted fates...
Publicity literature supplied by Rock- well International, a defense contractor, quotes Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as saying, "Without the B-1 to replace the aging B-52, the triad of our defenses will suffer a serious and perhaps fatal imbalance in the 1980-90 time period...