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...first glance, it seems to be a hazardous exercise in déjàvu: nearly the entire new issue of Harper's devoted to a Watergate retrospective. In the absence of new bombshells, what could sustain interest in 65 more pages about the scandal? First-person articles by some of the principals, for one thing, and Harper's managed to come up with some fresh and remarkable copy. "Plumbers" G. Gordon Liddy, Eugenio Martinez and Bernard Barker tell their stories in print for the first tune. E. Howard Hunt contributes a brief essay on hush money. Former...
British voters greeted Wilson's announcement with about as much enthusiasm as they would show for a soccer game between two fourth-division losers. For them, the campaign must seem frustratingly déjà vu. It was only seven months ago that they went to the same polls to vote for the same parties on what may appear to them to be the same issues. Britain's problems, however, have grown considerably worse since then. The country not only faces what all party leaders agree is the worst economic crisis in 40 years, but also is suffering...
...which they were outnumbered 10 to 1 by police. They have now formed an organization called the Forces for National Reconciliation. The Buddhists carefully refrained from labeling the "force" a political party in order to avoid legal harassment, but they clearly intend to exert renewed political influence. Says Senator Vu Van Mau, leader of a Buddhist group in the Thieu-dominated Senate: "I think in a democracy-and Thieu claims that this is a democracy-that he must take account of the opinion of the people. He must explain himself...
...could blame the Dodgers last week if they had a frightening sense of déjà vu. Just a year after they had fallen apart in the second half of the sea son, the Dodgers seemed ready for a repeat performance. Their 10½-game lead earlier this year had dwindled to a margin of 2½, and they still had six games with the surging Reds...
...other hand, brought rigorous scientific standards to his judgments on the story, and an admitted predisposition to skepticism. "Belief in these matters," he feels, "is less a function of intelligence than of psychological need." Although he firmly believes that even such widespread phenomena as déjà vu and precognitive dreams will eventually yield to rational analysis, he cannot rationally explain why, three times in a row last week, his clock-radio failed to go off, making him late for work...