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...Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made an emotional televised appeal to Schleyer's kidnapers to "stop this mad operation," which strikes "against our liberal order as a whole, against any human order whatsoever and therefore against all of us." He assured West Germans-who according to recent polls support a tougher government response to terrorism-that he would do all that the "state of law allows...
...Speed, strength and stamina are the bedrock" on which the team will build its skills, says Felske, who hopes the team will be tougher and better than last year's squad--which didn't do so badly anyway, finishing at 10-7 for the season...
...will more than make up for Thal's departure with a combination of improved lettermen, promising freshmen and eager performers from last year's J.V. teams. "With the good girls coming in and the majority of the stronger players from last year, I definitely figure the team will be tougher this year," Wynn said...
...Lasky's book has any value, it is in raising a number of serious and worthwhile questions: To what extent did past Presidents overreach their authority? Were their violations in any way comparable to the excesses of Nixon? Did much of the U.S. press judge Nixon by a tougher standard than it had applied to his predecessors...
...take a much firmer stand against Big Business and Big Labor. Says Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "Quite honestly, at the moment I don't think the Administration's got an anti-inflation program." Unless the White House gets tougher, some economists fear, the job of restraining prices will fall to the independent Federal Reserve Board and its Chairman Arthur Burns, who has repeatedly made it clear that he will tighten up credit rather than permit runaway inflation. Whatever else it might accomplish, that strategy would almost certainly result...