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Every nation has thousands of people with more or less hidden sadistic instincts. They are eagerly used by various dictators (Hitler's Gestapo, Stalin's NKVD, the Shah's SAVAK, Pinochet's DINA, etc.) and carry out their new duties with sadistic pleasure. Some of them may happen to be M.D.s...
...Allocations. Working from a 400-page set of regulations governing the amounts of gasoline to be distributed to various parts of the country, the department has attempted to foresee changes in demand and to match them with potential supply. It has failed. Even Energy Secretary James Schlesinger says his department's rules have "put the gasoline where the cars are not." Shifting of supplies has alleviated problems for some areas while worsening them for others. Two weeks ago, 21 states were experiencing gas lines. At week's end, the department again modified allocation rules to limit supplies...
Among the various notables who helicoptered to the mountaintop were...
...extent to which the Senate might append its understandings to the various SALT II documents will become clearer as the ratification process progresses. The Foreign Relations Committee hearings run at least through early August; the Armed Services Committee begins its own hearings on July 23. By mid-October, the full Senate will start debating the treaty, and a vote will probably come sometime the following month...
...also guest choreographed for various companies--including "Goat Dance" and "Rainwood" for the Boston Ballet...