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...helicopter equipped with a television camera circled over the demonstrations, ready to single out untoward disturbances. Earlier in the week, police had raided several offices of the anti-Brezhnev, Maoist-lining Communist Party of Germany (K.P.D.), in a clear signal that any planned nastiness would not be tolerated. Proceedings are under way to ban the K.P.D...
Little was left to chance. The much feared security command, KOPKAMTIB, ordered Indonesia's 125 million citizens to refrain from violence or even controversy. As a special precaution against the spreading of untoward ideas, Mission Impossible and The Untouchables were temporarily banned from the nation's air waves. Then the 920 delegates to the People's Consultative Assembly, a military-dominated body whose deliberations take the place of national elections, gathered in Jakarta's high-domed amphitheater to select Indonesia's President for the next five years...
Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns is deeply concerned about the danger of inflation, and to ease the pressure, he will likely make a show of jawboning down any untoward increases in rates. As for the Federal Reserve, it is expected to hold to its measured money policy, even if it allows most interest rates to rise just before the election...
...about two paralytics who find their handicaps no barrier to love. There are perhaps a dozen other ways to describe the plot, none of which would make it sound any less sentimental. Moreover, Director-Scenarist Bryan Forbes (Seance on a Wet Afternoon) seems less dedicated to insights than to untoward assaults on the tear ducts...
...First-day visitors were enthusiastic: "Oh, it just makes you want to cry," burbled Beatrice Agnew, 60, "it's all so happy here." Said Brad Griffis. 8, whose family of five spent $45.99 that day: "It's the best day of my life." The only untoward incident took place when a somewhat confused woman sought free admission because, she told police, "I am Cinderella." The Disney cops, primed for any emergency, lured her away by telling her that their police car was a pumpkin...