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...week's end, Britain's Labor Party leader, Harold Wilson, broadcast an eloquent appeal on behalf of his notion for tripartite talks between Belfast, London and Dublin. "For God's sake forget the past," he pleaded. "Forget William III. Forget about a long-dead Dutchman and remember you're living in the reign of Elizabeth II. Forget about the struggles of 50 years ago. Forget about the Easter Rising...
...level of $150 million to as much as $200 million." One major complaint was the one-year time limit on the maximum 10% credit. The incentive would have almost no effect during the 90-day freeze. Pointing out that most capital investments take 18 to 24 months to complete, Harold Williams, dean of U.C.L.A.'s business school, argued that a permanent credit of 71% would provide more stimulation in the long run. 3) DEVALUE THE DOLLAR. By abrogating the 22-year-old U.S. pledge to exchange dollars for gold, the President set off a chain of events that will almost...
...eight years, on TV and in the movies, Harold J. Smith was known as Tonto, the bass-toned sidekick of the Lone Ranger (played by John Hart). But now Smith has assumed a more authentic Indian name. "Jay Silverheels is a translation of my Indian name," he explained after having it legally changed, "and since I'm an Indian, I've never seen a reason why I shouldn't use it." His grandfather became a Smith, Silverheels noted, when Indian officials advised members of the family to change their names "so that they wouldn...
...Panther Party, was smiling. The ten women and two men of the jury were filing out of the Alameda County courtroom in Oakland, Calif. After six days of wrangling over the case, in which Newton was accused of killing a police officer, they were so firmly deadlocked that Judge Harold B. Hove declared a mistrial and dismissed them. "This shows that with at least one black person on the jury I can get a fair trial," Newton said. "A hung jury keeps me out of jail...
Today, religious arguments carry less weight but modern morality still condemns many of the old sins for psychological or humanistic reasons. Harold Greenwald, author of The Call Girl: A Social and Psychoanalytic Study, states the argument in typical terms. He calls prostitution "the extreme form of a relationship in which the members are interested only in exploiting each other." He calls it a form "of selling out-selling out what we believe...