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...Administration-backed bill banning more school busing for the sake of achieving racial desegregation. Recognizing the same political advantage the President saw, the majority of Senators and Congressmen were ready to pitch in and make this bill law, but they were thwarted by filibusters by Liberals Jacob Javits and Walter Mondale...
Ever since its biennial convention a year ago, the 2.9 million member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has been on the brink of a civil war between the supporters of its aggressively orthodox president, Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, 52, and those of Dr. John Tietjen, 44, the moderate president of the denomination's large, influential Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The 1971 church convention, acting on its theme "Sent to Reconcile," attempted a kind of Missouri Compromise, supporting Preus in his theological investigation of the St. Louis seminary but leaving the moderates in control of the seminary's governing...
...Does he have a rendezvous with destiny or a rendezvous with himself?" asks New York Senator Jacob Javits. No one really knows what Nixon's view of history is, what he would like the historians to say about him. Is the real Richard Nixon the statesman who opened new worlds with his missions to Peking and Moscow, or is he the shrill and narrow partisan of the 1970 congressional campaign? There are those who argue that the President suppressed some of his more conservative convictions during his first term because they were not politically palatable. So he might...
...give it its drama. There are moments when even the characters realize that a scene they are enacting would make an impressive page of art or a vision in the Bible--a white woman walking through a market full of Indians, for instance, feels like the angel looking for Jacob in a desert encampment of unbelieving women. And several times, Wilson mentions visual images that have stirred his own imagination--a curled brown photograph of Juan Tushim's grandfather, a scene in Bunuel's Las Hurdes in which a plain child's coffin is carried down through Spanish passes...
...warmaking powers by reinforcing the badly eroded constitutional right of Congress to declare and support a war. Several such bills have been introduced that would not apply to Viet Nam but to any future Viet Nams. Most discussed is the proposal of New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits to limit unilateral military action by the President to specific instances where the U.S. or its armed forces have been attacked. The President could also take military action to protect American lives and property abroad or to carry out the terms of a treaty or other agreement ratified by Congress...