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...Australian Actress Judy Davis, Adela is dull at first glance but with a wild surmise glowing in her eyes, her gestures half formed, alternately acknowledging and denying the curious new telegraphy that India is dot-dashing through her ganglia. She will have her adventure! She will touch, as the Anglo-Indians keep refusing to, Indian reality! And she will do so despite the warnings of her fiancé (Nigel Havers, who does the impossible by making priggishness sympathetic...
...fact, the inquiry had struck a discordant note in Anglo-American relations. The criminal investigation, begun in 1983, was supposedly looking into the possibility that British Airways and other North Atlantic carriers had conspired to cut prices to drive Britain's Laker Airways out of business. Before his airline went bankrupt in 1982, Freddie Laker had offered round-trip fares between London and New York for as little...
...there is another, darker side to current Anglo-Soviet relations that some Britons see as crude interference in British affairs. Recently, an official of the National Union of Mineworkers announced that the Soviets have donated $1.3 million in cash, food and clothing to help the N.U.M. members continue their bloody nine-month-old strike. This follows a summer when more than 100 mineworkers and their families were provided with free vacations at a resort on the Black Sea. A week ago it was revealed that Arthur Scargill, the militantly Marxist leader of the miners, had made several secret visits...
...Abolishing the insanity defense would mean abandoning the idea on which the Anglo-American system of criminal justice rests--that of man as a responsible agent with free will...By overlooking concerns that a man's will (can be) limited by mental illness, so that he would be unable to choose between good and evil as the criminal law now requires, Attorney General William French Smith...calls for a fundamental change in American jurisprudence...
...voting patterns over the past four decades also cast into doubt the longstanding Democratic faith in the power of the proverbial New Deal coalition, a seething mass of humanity that managed to include everybody but white male anglo-saxons. The problem, glaringly revealed last week, is that the clear majority of Americans are either white male anglo-saxons or would like to think of themselves as part of the white male anglo-saxon mainstream. And in the South, where everybody attributes the racial gap in voting patterns to blind racism, the Democrats have yet to give 'jes plain folks...