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Certainly any Soviet demand concerning the way in which the U.S. treats its own citizens would be furiously resented here. The legislation's many supporters do not see it that way. It is so popular, in fact, that it has acquired one of the longest lists of cosponsors in congressional history: 77 Senators and 287 Representatives. If just those supporters alone vote for the measure, it will pass...
...decline, Wambaugh suggests, parallels the erosion of justice in a case that dragged through the courts for more than seven years after the killers were finally caught. Mowed by technicalities and changes in the laws of admissible evidence, their trial amassed 45,000 pages of transcript, the longest in California court history. Wambaugh's narrative tends to plod whenever he plays the tireless gumshoe, hauling in facts that are, in the clarion cry of the myriad lawyers on the case, irrelevant and immaterial...
There was gray-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs, and Fidel Castro of Cuba, still the archetypal revolutionary in his olive-drab uniform. There, too, was King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India and scores of others...
Navy psychologists also note that submariners tend to "burn out" during a four-year hitch-although they make only two cruises (each lasting two or three months at the longest) a year, only 20% sign up for more. The Navy experts have doubts that the submarine crews could endure missions of much longer than three months without suffering serious psychological difficulties...
...were jolted from sleep by the first tremors of an earthquake. In Mexico City, where a quake in 1957 had killed more than 50 people, hundreds poured into the streets in abject terror. When the earth stopped moving, 120 agonizing seconds after the initial jolt, Mexico had experienced the longest earthquake in its recorded history...