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...assessment that "the opinion appears vulnerable on most of its points." Elliott's conclusions about publicity were the most controversial. For one thing, members of the court-martial panel were not likely to read or hear anything substantive outside the courtroom that was not presented in exceptionally grim detail by prosecution witnesses...
...movement. Later in the day the coordinating committee broadcast a scathing attack on Haile Selassie, denouncing him for erecting statues to dead dogs and feeding live ones while thousands died of famine in Wollo province. That evening Ethiopian television for the first time showed pictures of famine victims; the grim reportage was interspersed with shots of the Emperor drinking champagne and admiring huge cakes he had had flown from Europe for state banquets...
...grim-looking stockade is the brainchild of a group of Jamaican psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists. It is supposed to convey the message that crime does not pay-and apparently it has succeeded. According to police statistics, there were only eight murders by gunfire during the first three months after creation of the gun court, compared with 29 in the previous three months...
Despite the experts' grim predictions, the tone of the meeting was generally convivial. In a flight of hyperbole, Ford told the group that if it succeeded in finding answers to inflation, "there will be statues of each of you in every city park throughout the U.S." Democrat Walter Heller remarked: "It is refreshing to be in a White House open to a little laughter again, and to dissent...
Dreading Retirement. For tens of millions of citizens, the admonition was not only grim but superfluous: they are already being forced into penny watching on a scale they have not experienced in decades. In the past twelve months, hourly earnings of the average American worker have climbed 7.4%, but retail prices have risen much faster; the average paycheck now buys 4.6% less goods and services than a year ago. That is a drop in the purchasing power of Americans without any parallel in the whole post-World War II period. Pensioners are caught in such a merciless squeeze between higher...