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Bribery has always been a difficult thing to prove, absent a videotape of a crook stuffing the pockets of a politician with cash. But so large are the amounts involved???and so voluminous the evidence from a man who committed nearly every thought to e-mail?that prosecutors in the Abramoff case may even test the proposition that legally reported campaign contributions constitute bribery, if it can be proved they were given expressly in return for official actions. A high-level source tells TIME that prosecutors will also focus much of their energies on the lesser and easier-to-prove...
...cheering on the home team. I think the President threw a touchdown pass." The Richmond (Va.) News Leader exulted: "This is an immensely happy development. For the first time, those who want to support the President?those who have clung to vestiges of hope that he was not involved???have something tangible...
...argument for immediate withdrawal comes in many forms. To some of its advocates, a kind of moral imperative is involved???the war is evil, the U.S. has no right to be in Viet Nam, the Saigon government is rotten and without popular support...
Husband's Holiday (Paramount) is a solemn little problem play on marital infidelity, a subject which usually in the cinema is material for fun. The three persons chiefly involved???husband (Clive Brook), wife (Vivienne Osborne) and mistress (Juliette Compton)?regard their situation as a predicament. They make honest and generally sensible efforts to extricate themselves. The wife is eventually generous enough to give the husband a divorce. He, still troubled by a case of indecision, wanders about in the snow at night, making up his mind which way to go. The mistress, who is not a designing wench...
...Crescent Lake, Ore., on the Southern Pacific. Its proponents declare that it will open up a potentially rich region in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, while its railroad opponents see the new line as economically unsound. Cost of construction is estimated at $9,900,000. The fundamental principle involved???whether the I.C.C. can command as well as permit new railroad construction?will probably cause the Union Pacific to take the case into the courts. The Commission itself was not all sure, split 7 to 4 on the question. Dissenters were Commissioners Brainerd, Farrell, Porter, Woodlock...