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...meeting with Kissinger," Raffel said yesterday, "we will at-tempt to find out just where the foreign policy is coming from and hopefully, where it's going...
...School. On the especially touchy question of school busing, the California Supreme Court has issued an ingenious opinion that may well tempt other state courts. In an indirect effort to blunt school integration, California, like many states and communities, had passed a law that banned busing of children without a parent's consent. With equal indirection, the California court upheld the busing consent regulation -but warned that school boards may, without parental agreement, still assign children to distant schools in order to achieve integration. Thus a child is no longer required to take the school bus in California...
Mills took the House floor the very next day to attack revenue sharing. He limited his criticism to the $5 billion Nixon wants the Federal Government to return to states and local governments to use as they see fit. This, Mills argued, would tempt lower units of government to raise their expenditures without increasing their taxes. Hence Congress would have to raise federal taxes to meet the unchecked demands...
...perverted the Biblical role of the sexes: "Pimping goes back to the man controlling the situation before Eve bit the apple, see, and brought him down to her level and stuck the apple in his mouth. She was rebelling against Adam's authority. When Adam let Eve tempt him into taking the apple, he gave up his manhood, and today man is fighting to regain...
...government bonds, which the police found in last week's raids, prompted by tips from police informers. Said one sympathetic Marseille cab driver, who earned less than $5 for eleven hours of work the previous day: "When it's so hard to earn a living, you sometimes tempt the devil." For tempting the devil, the Marseille boys face possible prison sentences of 15 to 20 years...