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...months immediately ahead, Americans can take some solace from one rather tenuous forecast. Long-range weather predictions indicate that the winter could be relatively mild. If that is the case, the discomfort and dislocation arising from the energy crisis may be not disastrous but merely arduous...
...Soviet imperialism was the experience of the Soviet Moslems of central Asia. In Tsarist times, though dominated politically by the Russians, the Moslems retained a measure of tribal self-rule, cultural independence and local economic sovereignty. After the revolution, Soviet domination of the Asian areas north of Iran was tenuous, and to curry favor the Bolsheviks allowed the Moslems to continue the privileged status they had enjoyed under the Tsar...
DESPITE the liberals' failure to retain their tenuous hold on the Cambridge City Council, the Independents' 5-4 majority is luckily just as tenuous. More encouraging is the prospect of a continuing progressive majority on the school committee, with the apparent election of three Cambridge Civic Association/Common Slate candidates and one unaffiliated moderate, Glenn Koocher...
...journalist should refuse to name his source, he could be held in contempt of court. The Supreme Court last year ruled that newsmen do have some special constitutional rights but must nonetheless answer grand jury questions unless the connection to a criminal investigation is "remote and tenuous." Because of the faint possibility of a criminal conspiracy being proved in this case, newsmen might be able to invoke successfully the inglorious but sturdy Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination. More likely, though, their lawyers will again raise privilege arguments under the freedom of the press guarantees of the First Amendment...
...riceland and creating a new class of powerful client landlords. French labor agents were uprooting growing numbers of Vietnamese from their ancient villages and shipping them to burgeoning rubber plantations, where the Vietnamese--the French took their names away and assigned them numbers--bitterly confronted a hard and tenuous life torn from their past. Also at this time, Vietnamese national pride was increasing, particularly among the growing class of Vietnamese civil servants who the French trained to administer but did not let rule. The French were swiftly eradicating traditional Vietnam; what would replace it was an open question...