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...Washington Post-Newsweek broadcast group-in Jacksonville, Detroit and Hartford-told Mobil that the ads violated their ban against advocacy commercials. "We believe that controversial issues should be dealt with in our news and public affairs programs," says Amy McComb, manager of Jacksonville's WJXT. Adds Joel Chaseman, president of the Post-Newsweek stations: "We have a policy that spot commercials are not the proper forum for complex and controversial issues...
...Joel Filartiga is a medical philanthropist and artist whose portraits of peasant life have recently circulated internationally. Filartiga runs a free medical service, the only one for miles, in the southeastern region of Paraguay. His condemnations of General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay have won him the government's enmity and led to the political murder of his son in 1976. Taking on his nation's reform as a solo mission, he came to the United States last month to rally support in American colleges and to lobby in Washington...
According to Joel Homer, who chronicles such excrescences in his forthcoming book, Jargon, these terms can fall into the category of "nonverbal verbalizing ... a speech system in which words are used more as images than conceptual symbols." Nonverbal verbalizing (itself an outstanding piece of jargon) flourishes best in its home, Washington, D.C. There, after the Three Mile Island accident gave more mileage to the term, "China Syndrome," Joseph Hendrie, then chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, concluded: "It would be prudent to consider expeditiously the provision of instrumentation that would provide an unambiguous indication of the level of fluid...
...plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash, grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon undies, open shirts and Mork...
...Joel S. Migdal, associate professor of Government, said yesterday the United States government should be aware that Afghanistan's strategic importance is low, and that the United States should not take drastic measures to reprimand Soviet intervention there. "It is important to maintain world stability," he said...