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...whales, and stand there while explosive harpoons aimed at the whales whiz past their heads. They lecture the crews of the ships in Russian in an attempt to persuade them of the wrongfulness of their acts. But with little success: in one case a captain ordered the crew to drag through the ice-cold water an ecologist who had grabbed onto the cable the whaler was using to haul a whale up to the boat. "Voyages" was filmed along the Northern California coast and on the North Pacific. Last Days of the Dolphin, the second film, is narrated by Dick...
Another President might have demanded weeks ago that Lance quit. By letting the crisis drag on, Carter raised troubling questions about his instincts as a President and politician. Before making a decision, he hears out advocates with a variety of often conflicting viewpoints. But six of the seven aides closest to him are fellow Georgians. They are hardworking, shrewd and bright, but new to Washington. Notably, the one non-Georgian in the inner circle, Margaret ("Midge") Costanza, the former vice mayor of Rochester, was also the only one to come out publicly against Lance...
...economic field, Washington has protested Israeli offshore oil exploration in the Gulf of Suez. Publicity forced cancellation of a cozy arrangement under which the expenses of the 202-man Israeli arms-purchasing mission in New York was picked up by the U.S. Washington could drag its feet in helping develop Israel's own armaments industry, and refuse to deliver a promised nuclear power plant. The Administration could abolish the tax deduction that encourages Americans to send tens of millions of dollars to Israel via the United Jewish Appeal and other channels. The U.S. could end a policy of joint...
...sailing through the House last month largely intact, President Carter's energy program ran into rough weather in the past two weeks, during the early stages of its passage through the Senate. On the floor and in the opening committee skirmishes of a battle that is likely to drag on through the fall, the Senate reflected deep disagreement with parts of the plan. Unlike the House, the Senate is tackling the omnibus bill piecemeal; a few of the proposed changes strengthen the program but most weaken...
WHEN JESSICA MITFORD was a young teenager in London, her governess used to drag her to Hyde Park on Sundays. She would often wander over to where the soap-box orators held forth. One day, she heard someone sing the Internationale, and misunderstood the words. Instead of "the final conflict," Mitford thought the song referred to the class struggle as "the fine old conflict...