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...many turn up on editorial pages because they are innocuous and come cheap-as low as $5 per week. Some, easily classified by their automatic responses to any event, get printed so that a lazy editor can call his opinion page balanced, even when it is not. The token liberal or conservative columnist is a familiar trick. It is also out of date. No longer, as in Gilbert and Sullivan's day, is "every boy and every gal" born "either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative." Few Democrats any longer want to describe themselves as liberal...
...Government of Australia, as a token of its goodwill to the Government and people of the Bicentennial celebration of the American Revolution of 1776, conveys to Harvard University a gift of $US1 million to establish The Australian Studies Endowment Fund...
Bern Judge Jürg Sollberger has now ruled that the pamphlet's title was in fact defamatory, but he ordered the 13 people found guilty to pay only token fines: $120 each plus an additional $160 toward Nestlé's legal expenses. The judge also granted the Third World group a moral victory by commenting that Nestlé "must modify its publicity methods fundamentally." The defendants will appeal. Said one Nestlé spokesman: "Our marketing techniques are evolving all the time...
...President to one six-year term, the incumbent customarily chooses the next standard bearer of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), which has dominated Mexican politics since 1929. Moreover, the failure of the tiny Partido de Accion Nacional (P.A.N.) to agree on a candidate left Lopez Portillo without even token opposition...
...been arranged in Beirut and that Syria would begin a phased withdrawal of its forces. By week's end, Damascus had not confirmed any agreement to a ceasefire, and no observers in the Middle East thought that the Syrians were about to pull out more than a token number of their forces. Nonetheless, reports from Beirut indicated that the fighting was diminishing as the Pan-Arab contingents began separating Syrian from Palestinian and leftist Moslem forces. Once again, faint hopes for peace stirred in the prostrate country...