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...requires broadcasters to charge candidates the lowest available commercial rates. In a provision that will make it more difficult for presidential candidates to avoid campaign debates, the measure permanently voids the equal-time section of the Federal Communications Act of 1934. That provision, which will remain in effect for lesser offices, has made it impossible for networks and stations to offer debate time to major candidates without playing host to minor-party candidates...
...homegrown. Until the riots started, Malaysia enjoyed a prosperous economy based on tin, rubber and palm oil. But the wealth was not spread equitably. Like the Tunku, many Malays have a leisurely lifestyle, a world apart from that of the bustling, aggressive Chinese. Consequently, the Chinese, and to a lesser extent Indians, outpaced the Malays in per capita income...
...tool of the courts. The efficiency of the judicial system depends on a high percentage of defendants pleading guilty and by passing jury trials. A man with an over-worked, court-appointed lawyer who is not deeply involved in his case is likely to take the certainty of the lesser sentence involved in pleading guilty rather than risking a jury trial and a possible longer sentence, regardless of his guilt or innocence. In the New Haven case, plea-bargaining had an extra dimension. Bobby Seale was present in New Haven for only one day, May 18, 1969, to make...
...hardhats," she says, "they're my kind of people." One TV station offered her seven opportunities to debate her lesser-known opponents, Black Lawyer David Nelson and State Senator John Moakley; she refused, counting on the public's memory of where she stood. She won with 39% of the vote, and may run for mayor of Boston next year...
...fearful of Soviet-American collusion, and even a possible joint attack by the two superpowers. For that reason, it hopes to play off Russia and the U.S. against each other. Chou is also seeking to reassert China's role as a third force and a champion of the lesser powers...