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...vote for divorce is a vote for the Communists," went one Christian Democratic slogan. But when the ballots were counted, Europe's most Catholic country had retained its divorce law by a 3-to-2 vote; and by inference, it had approved the Socialists, and to a lesser extent the Communists, who backed...
...number of trials on already crowded court dockets. But this consideration is scarcely relevant to Watergate; federal prosecutors defend their use of bargained pleas on other grounds. For one thing, the bargains have meant sure, final convictions in many cases that might have been shaky in court. Also, the lesser Watergate cases must be settled quickly, prosecutors say, so that evidence developed with cooperative defendants can be used against the higher...
...candidates who will now compete to succeed Ronald Reagan (Democrat Edmund G. Brown Jr., 36, and Republican Houston Flournoy, 44) both have the advantage of being atypical politicians in an atypical year. Youthful and good-looking, they have enough experience in lesser offices to appear knowledgeable but are sufficiently offbeat to seem fresh...
...serve under the new Premier. Abba Eban, 59, who has feuded with Rabin ever since his appointment as Ambassador to Washington in 1968, was enraged when the Premier-designate offered the Foreign Ministry to Allon. Rubbing salt in the wound, Rabin offered Eban the Minister of Information folio, a lesser Cabinet job that Eban has always considered superfluous. Former Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, 65-the kingmaker of the Labor Party-flatly refused to stay hi his post. According to Rabin's foes, Sapir even cautioned his chosen successor, Banking Executive Yaacov Levinson, not to accept the Finance portfolio because...
...some stress on the 1850 census's finding that after 230 years of slavery only 7.7 per cent of slaves were mulatto. Such a finding doesn't appear to justify Abolitionist claims that the pre-war South was one big brothel. But neither does it attempt to measure whatever lesser forms of sexual exploitation of slaves occurred. Or, as Fogel and Engerman themselves put it, "while the cliometricians have been able to construct reasonably reliable indexes of the material level at which blacks lived under slavery, it has been impossible, thus far, to devise a meaningful index of the effect...