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...government care. The result is variety and vitality. In the West End, London's equivalent of Broadway, 28 shows are currently running, compared with 19 on Broadway. Not all are dramatically superior works. They contain wheezy old crowd pleasers like Dame Agatha Christie's The Mouse Trap, now in its 24th year, and such flimsy sex farces as Let's Get Laid and No Sex Please, We're British. Yet a fundamental difference between London and New York City is that the English are basically committed to the play; Broadway is always fervidly panting...
...negotiations are nevertheless a political booby trap for both sides. The canal may yet become an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. Ronald Reagan met several months ago in Boca Raton, Fla., with former Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias, whom Torrijos ousted in 1968. Earlier Reagan had accused the Administration of "giving up the defense of the hemisphere on the installment plan." As for Arias, he reportedly promised a softer Panamanian stand if he returned to power. Torrijos seems to accept the Ford Administration's efforts to keep negotiations low-key until after the November elections...
...hookers' union are some long-range attitudinal and political goals. COYOTE's ultimate aim is the decriminalization of prostitution--not its legalization. The existing laws which make prostitution a crime do not deter a prostitute from plying her trade; instead, they engulf the hooker in a dangerous, de-humanizing trap which ensnares her more deeply in crime. Illegality creates the necessity for pimps and opens the arena to organized crime...
COYOTE does not support legalization; from the organization's perspective, that alternative simply pulls the prostitute from one trap and lands her in another. "We don't want it ghetto-ized or regulated," St. James says. The government then becomes the most powerful pimp of all; as St. James told a squirming group of attorneys at the American Bar Association convention in 1974, "Really, who wants Ronald Reagan as a pimp...
...final trap facing the new committee is the touchy question of implementation. The biggest brouhaha could center around which Houses should be blessed with a 1.5-to-1 male-female balance, especially a nine River Houses try to battle for the one or two slots with the more attractive ratio. This inescapable problem arose repeatedly during the old CHUL's discussions, but a pre-set agenda prevented serious debate over which Houses would...