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American television networks seem to assume that their entire audience is below the age of consent. Thus the new season's most sophisticated entertainment may well be a British import drama rerun by NBC this Thursday, Male of the Species. First aired in the U.S. last January, the work is a dazzling, 90-minute model of urbanity...
Though he was well aware that Irish politics proved the graveyard of many a 19th century British government, Wilson reluctantly moved 300 troops into Londonderry, followed by an airlift of 600 to Belfast. By week's end, with the "full consent" of the Ulster government, an additional 1,000 British reinforcements were put on alert to move into Northern Ireland. Ulster, for all intents and purposes, had turned itself over to the foreign peacekeepers...
...Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie that would set up an in dependent "Office of Environmental Quality." The Senate has also just unanimously passed a remarkable bill in troduced by Washington Democrat Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, chairman of the Interior Committee. A shrewd politician, Jackson finessed his bill through on the consent calendar, which bypasses floor debate. His "National Environmental Policy Act of 1969" would do no less than...
Rightly or wrongly, Presidents on many occasions have irrevocably committed the country to foreign ventures without congressional consent. In the first two decades of the century, for example, American troops were sent repeatedly to preserve order or protect U.S. interests in Caribbean countries. In 1940 Franklin Roosevelt traded 50 World War I destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. As Winston Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs...
...face for both sides. Medical College Hospital, the larger of the two institutions being struck, agreed to rehire all strikers, including the dozen whose dismissal touched off the walkout. It did not agree to formal union recognition, which is forbidden by state laws covering public employees. But it did consent to a grievance procedure in which a union member can assist workers, and it approved an employee credit union that would allow a form of dues checkoff. As far as the union is concerned, these concessions amount to de facto recognition...