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...Nasser began to weaken last week, his family and special friends were summoned to his bedside. Heikal and Sadat were there, together with Defense Minister Mohammed Fawzi and two old companions from the 1952 revolutionary days of the Free Officers Movement, Hussein Shafei and Ali Sabry. After Nasser died, it fell to Sadat as Acting President to break the news to the nation. He waited three hours, while a red alert was flashed to put army units on guard against a possible Israeli attack. Then a weeping Sadat went on television to say: "The U.A.R., the Arab nation and humanity...
...Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, Resnais evolved an elliptical style of editing that included streams of consciousness, unconsciousness and dreams, all edited so tightly that the audience had to shift rapidly between tenses and dimensions. This technique made his films intellectual teasers, but it also tended to weaken the rather fragile narrative line. The scenario of Je T'Aime has been almost completely overwhelmed. It was supposed to be a kind of comic-strip fantasy about an unsuccessful suicide who is used by some dubious men of science as an experimental time traveler. Consumed by melancholy and guilt...
...bill would weaken the legal deterrence to unconstitutional police work. A judge could not disclose any illegally obtained material unless the defendant convinced him that the revelation would be "in the interest of justice." Indeed, if the specific crime for which a defendant was being tried took place five years after any general evidence was improperly obtained, leads derived from that evidence could not be challenged...
...official action to support students in these activities will be viewed as partisan politics, opposing the Republican administration." Maass said, "Let us not in meeting student demands of May 1969 weaken the capacity of Harvard to teach future generations of students in a free society...
...year-old monarchy, he could not be a Red but only a "pink Prince." Cambodia's predominantly rural people may not be all that amused. They are not so much anti-Communist as anti-Vietnamese, and Sihanouk's increasing dependence on Hanoi can only weaken his residual popularity...