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...Fifteen-year-olds commit more serious crimes than those in any other age group, with 16-year-olds close behind. Youths under 18 account for more than half of all burglary arrests...
...base that no other Senator can claim. Not only is he in a position to show his race the way out of apartheid politics; he could also wield considerable influence in the selection of the G.O.P. presidential candidate in 1968?and beyond. Though he is cagey enough not to commit himself so soon, he leans toward Michigan's George Romney for '68. Since more Negroes could come to resent Romney's Mormon religion?which still has an archaic tenet that denies the "priesthood" to Negroes?Brooke would be a valuable ally in defending the Michigan Governor's liberal record...
...Avventura, Sandro and Claudia's romance fails to solve their individual problems, yet they will remain together; in La Notte, Giovanni and Lidia decide not to separate although they know their marriage will never be successful; Red Desert ends with Giuliana's realization that she must not commit suicide even if her life is filled with neurotic unhappiness. Unlike the films of Rosselini, Hitchcock, and Renoir, which follow characters in a state of emotional or spiritual crisis through a therapeutic chain of events, Antonioni's films are rarely concerned with major personal development or change. Instead, Antonioni fully reveals...
...Sato's most farsighted moves has been to join Asian regional groupings (TIME Essay, Feb. 3), which do not commit Japan to an aggressive foreign policy but will probably involve the country with its Asian neighbors. One organization in which Japan already has a stake is the Manila-based Asian Development Bank, whose first president is a former government finance adviser, Takeshi Watanabe, 60. With its $200 million funding toward the 32-nation bank's $1 billion capitalization, Japan matched the U.S. contribution. Said Sato: "A cornerstone is now being laid by all of us to establish...
...even bitterness. Catholic moral theologians point out that abortion and infanticide have been flatly condemned by the church since its earliest years. Today most Catholic scholars still agree that the fetus is a human life from the very instant of conception; to destroy it willfully, therefore, is to commit an act analogous to murder.* Denouncing the proposed Arizona reform, Tucson's Bishop Francis J. Green declared: "Traditionally, it has been the responsibility of the state to protect life. This law introduces a frightening change in the state's attitude toward a person's right to live...