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Mills tried to save face for the Democrats by leaving the check-off in-but making it effective only after 1972 and subject to a subsequent congressional appropriation. Though there were valid substantive arguments against the scheme, the hard fact was that the Democrats wanted campaign cash for 1972, and they lost out. Nixon prevailed, too, on the tax changes he wanted for Phase II and after (see THE ECONOMY...
...movement began in the 1960s with a group of writers who championed "contextual" or "situation" ethics. As defined in a widely read book by Episcopalian Joseph Fletcher, situation ethics holds that there are always circumstances in which absolute principles of behavior break down. The only valid ethical test, the argument goes, is what God's love demands in each particular situation...
Laws treating various groups of people differently can still be valid, said Burger, but he specified that any such differentiation must have "a rational relationship" to the purpose of the legislation. The Idaho Supreme Court had found that the state law eliminated a source of controversy that courts would otherwise have to settle, but the U.S. Supreme Court found this an insufficient reason for favoring males over females as estate administrators...
...Contributors are mostly junior staffers from local papers: criticism has often been narrow and carping, more concerned with working conditions than the papers' performance; advocacy sometimes is so one-sided as to seem irresponsible. But some valid questions have been raised. The Long Beach Review attacked local papers for rejecting an article on the use of dumdum bullets by the city's police. The Philadelphia Journalism Review took the monthly magazine Philadelphia to task for refusing to run an unflattering pre-election investigative report that it had assigned on Frank Rizzo, the city's tough police commissioner...
...report, originally presented by committee to President Pusey in spring 1971, consists of seven points. The points require an assurance of valid title for the object and an assurance that it was not illegally exported (in violation of a country's export laws after July 1, 1971). All information concerning previous ownership (object's the provenance) will be made public...