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...Union. The very subject of the U.S.S.R. sends the American body politic into spasms of divisive debate. That eternally troubled, troublesome country is the oldest and most vivid example of how unsuccessful the U.S. has been at using tariffs as punitive or coercive instruments of diplomacy. In 1912 the Taft Administration revoked a commercial treaty with czarist Russia to protest the persecution of Jews. A few years later, the pogroms stopped, but not because of U.S. pressure: the Bolsheviks came to power and began repressing the entire population. Washington resumed normal trade when it recognized the U.S.S.R. in 1933, even...
...secret to plot strategy. Two groups met last weekend, one in Dallas and another in suburban Maryland, and talk of rebellion is becoming more public. An upcoming article in the Heritage Foundation's quarterly Policy Review recalls Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose challenge to fellow Republican William Howard Taft, which resulted in a Democratic victory, and suggests such an outcome might be preferable to the "betrayals of the Bush Administration." G.O.P. hard-liners say they fear that if one of their own does not challenge Bush, former Klansman David Duke will try to become the right-wing standard-bearer...
...Arlington National Cemetery. When he stepped down, he heard a strange sound, looked up and saw Orville Wright steer his Military Flyer above him with Lieut. Frank Lahm, one of the first military pilots, at his side. Garber ran up the hill to Fort Myer, where President William Howard Taft was witnessing the birth of American air power. Years later, Garber, by then a friend of the Wright brothers, acquired both their original plane and the Military Flyer for the Smithsonian...
...Dallas, sponsored by the local unit of the National Organization for Women, more than 100 women saw a 30-minute videotape that showed how the procedure is performed with a $90 kit containing a glass jar, plastic tubing and a special syringe. "We're being realistic," says Charlotte Taft, an abortion-clinic director who spoke at the meeting. "When abortion becomes illegal, not many physicians will risk losing their licenses. If I have a choice between going to a group of caring women I trust or a stranger, then I'll take the women...
Somebody on the Taft University basketball team is shaving points, the rumor goes, and Spenser, the soft-centered hard-guy detective, soon discovers a grubbier scandal. Nobody at Taft will admit it, but the team's star power forward has been passed through his courses for nearly four years despite the fact that he can't read. Spenser is shocked -- he believes in truth, honor and grade-point averages -- and he sets out to discover which lizards, tenured and not, are responsible. The reader puts up his feet and gets comfortable. That's a bad sign. Too much comfort...