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...government. You discussed that event in your issue of Dec. 13. Your article stated that since the dismissal, allegations have surfaced that "the CIA had a hand in Whitlam's fall." You referred to a recent piece in Foreign Policy magazine in which a Professor James A. Nathan stated that "a plausible case is being developed that CIA officials may have also done in Australia what they managed to achieve in Iran, Guatemala and Chile: destroy an elected government." I do not know what the CIA did or did not do in those other countries, but it is totally...
...doubts that Republican Robert Dole, 59, of Kansas is the upper house's current top banana. Dole was in excellent fettle last week at confirmation hearings for his wife Elizabeth Dole, 46, President Reagan's appointee to the post of Secretary of Transportation. "I feel like Nathan Hale," said he. "I regret that I have but one wife to give to my country's infrastructure." But he may have a challenger for the title of life of the party: California's new Senator, Pete Wilson, 49, who took on James Watt, the aggressive Interior Secretary...
...Calif. Eight hours later he was dead of asphyxiation, apparently caused by blows to the stomach. Dozens of other children, their parents later reported, had come home from the same center with large bruises and emotional scars. Arrested for murder and child abuse, the center's operator, Eleanor Nathan, 36, knew that the only eyewitnesses against her were youngsters. Until lately the testimony of little children was rarely allowed in court, but that is changing. This month, after 19 of her former charges were permitted to testify, Nathan was convicted of first-degree murder and twelve counts of felony...
...Nathan case demonstrates, what comes out of the mouths of babes is now often admissible as evidence and is more and more believed by judges and juries. No landmark decision is responsible for the development. Unlike adults, youngsters are still presumed to be incompetent witnesses in most states. To overcome that presumption, they must convince the judge that they have reliable memories, understand the difference between truth and falsehood, and know that lying is wrong. Most children cannot satisfy those requirements before turning seven, but there are a growing number of exceptions. An increase in child abuse prosecutions...
SUCH GAPS DISTRACT from what is otherwise an overwhelming flood of color and emotion. Streep, Kline and MacNicol, all marvels of casting, create a triangle of almost staggering chemistry. While the abrupt revelation that Nathan is a schizophrenic--crucial to the plot--does not satisfactorily account for Kline's flamboyant magnetism, that magnetism nevertheless is riveting. Kline apes MacNicol's Southern accent and frolics through extravagant pranks and outings while Streep watches him in mute, almost abject admiration: not a flicker of an eyelid spoils the effect...