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...Vain Hypocrisy. The Kaplan plan is not without its problems. How strong should legalized pot be, for example? Would politicians campaign on pot platforms, wooing the 18-year-old vote with pledges of higher potency? Could legislators resist pressures from licensed pot producers demanding permission to advertise? Although agreeing with Kaplan, University of Texas Law Professor Michael Rosenthal notes that adopting Kaplan's proposal might be something of a gamble. If pot-control efforts were not at least as strong as those now being used to discourage cigarettes, the nation could be trading its current law-enforcement problem...
...Volstead Act "resulted largely from pressure by white rural Protestants to have made illegal a practice that they associated primarily with urban Roman Catholics." It was a way of censuring not only drinking behavior but an "entire lifestyle, including Catholicism." In the same way, Kaplan charges, marijuana bans are vain expressions of opposition to the youth culture, and they do more harm than good...
...visitors see Nixon, if they do at all, without either Haldeman or Ehrlichman on hand. So blocked and desperate are some Senators that they find themselves ludicrously blurting ideas to Nixon during 15-second encounters in a White House reception line. Nine black Representatives, all Democrats, tried in vain for three months to see Nixon. John Ehrlichman explains: "We try not to permit opportunists to use the presidency as a grandstand...
...based organization headed by Simon Wiesenthal and dedicated to tracking down Nazi war criminals. In 1967, Stangl was finally extradited. "If I had done nothing else except catch this man," said Wiesenthal, who was in the Düsseldorf courtroom last week, "then I would not have lived in vain...
...other reasons. In his crusade against polluters, Hickel has often seemed to ignore the Nixon Administration's "Southern Strategy." Governor John McKeithen of Louisiana, a state that derives about 40% of its revenues from oil drilling, petitioned the Secretary to be lenient with the oil companies-in vain. Hickel has also temporarily blocked construction of a West German chemical plant in South Carolina, and the controversial jetport near the Everglades National Park in Florida. In every instance, Hickel justifies his action as he did last week in speaking of the oil incidents: "We will be fair. But we will...