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...represents a compromise be tween West Germany's two major political parties over how to cope with the burden of the Nazi past. Arguing that the German people can only expiate their national guilt by bringing the wartime offenders to jus tice, the Socialists favored abolishing the statute of limitations on all forms of mur der, including even homicide by civilians in peacetime...
Brazil is ostensibly a Catholic country, but it is not really Catholic. African rites were brought by slaves, and the lower-class people who prac tice spiritism have adopted Catholic saints and some Catholic rituals. They use the Catholic icons to represent their African gods. Carnaval ends up as a time when the lower class uses the status of the rich white man's religion mixed with African gods-the ones the poor believe in. The celebration thus pulls the country together...
...Justice Department suit asks the court to order any necessary "divorcement, divestiture or reorganization" of IBM. It is not likely that Jus tice has any intention of breaking up the company. Probably, the trustbusters will use the threat as a bargaining point in working out a consent decree at the end of a case that is likely to drag on for years. Justice mainly hopes to restrain IBM's zeal a bit so that more competition can flourish. IBM called the charges "unwarranted" and promised to "defend itself forcefully." As evidence of the "open and strongly competitive nature...
Then it was back to New York to begin his $60,000-$75,000 annual prac tice of what he calls "a more personal type of journalism." His basic reportonal posture he describes as "healthily jaundiced." "If someone wants something done on the scenic wonders of the United States," Newman says wryly 'he wouldn't call on me. I am not very good at expressing awe." That goes for television itself. When he isn't first-nightmg or anchoring an NBC show Newman catches up with his reading' I m not entertained," he says, "by television...
...decision probably earned Jus tice's trustbusters temporary relief from recent complaints that they have been too lenient with big-business mergers. Such criticism falls most heavily on Donald F. Turner, 46, who in two years as Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust has become resigned to trouble. "There are strong emotional views on antitrust," he says, "ranging between those who think it is too tough and those who think it so soft as to be antiquated." Now he is mostly under attack as being too soft, by critics who note that in 1966 "large firm disappearances" (acquisitions...