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...said it was the federal government's responsibility to provide leadership and funds to tighten the criminal justice system, in order to insure that all those convicted of a crime are sent to prison...
...little as possible. When the evacuation began, many South Vietnamese found it doubly repugnant that their waifs were being transplanted into an utterly alien culture and given American names. Many Americans were not surprised when Saigon announced last week that with 1,700 children already gone, it would tighten up its temporary easy-exit policy to prevent the quick departure of large groups. Said Martin Teitel, director of the American Friends Service Committee's Asian program: "It is insulting to the Vietnamese to suggest that they are unable to care for their own children...
...setback piled on setback, almost too rapidly for comprehension, only one thing was clear: the strategic retreat ordered by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, supposedly to tighten up his defenses against the Communists, had developed into a human tragedy of colossal proportions. These were the major developments...
...give the skin of his nudes a kind of granular density, a thickness of imagined substance, that is quite old-masterly. The flesh is loose, but it is all structure too; and when the form beneath it slides away, obliterated by a wipe of the rag, Bacon can instantly tighten the image back with one detail - an eye, a patch of spiky hair like hedgehog quills. To a degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that every stroke and drip counts, that they carry a weight of ethical decision, so that representation is not a matter of filling...
...first presidential press conference, Ford offered wageearners hurt by inflation two bits of advice. The first was to tighten their belts. What was the second...