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...security and the scale of the operations against the security of this country." The statement went on to make it absolutely clear that unless Soviet officials stopped spying, Britain was prepared to oppose an all-European conference at which the Soviets hope to win Western recognition of the status quo in Eastern Europe. Home will undoubtedly stress this point during a face-to-face meeting with Gromyko this week in New York City...
...passage of the 26th Amendment in itself changed nothing. It gives you bare rights which are empty if they are not exercised. It gives you a status, status which without use merely adds inertia to the status quo," he said...
...defendants and those who made money from station advertising. Barnouw quotes a 1935 Harvard Business Review summary of the FRC's career: "...while talking in terms of the public interest, convenience and necessity the commission actually chose to further the ends of the commercial broadcasters." Thus was the status quo preserved. Long commercial breaks between individual programs became commonplace. By 1932, prices were stated openly--the last bit of marketplace reticence was broken. When Senate protests resulted, the FRC stated that advertising could in no way be restricted without detriment to program service...
Anticoup Insurance. The federation will have one aspect useful to all concerned. Its constitution provides that any two of the states can intervene militarily to maintain the status quo in the third. That at least gives anticoup insurance to the regimes of Gaddafi, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad. In effect the federation is a union of leaders rather than of people...
...away the most popular candidate in Vinh Binh, a flat, fertile province in the Mekong Delta, 60 miles southeast of Saigon. Son of a wealthy canton chief who was assassinated by Communists in 1954, Duc has gradually shifted from being a defender of the status quo to being a critic of the war and of the presence of foreign forces. He is now a national personality, and in any fair election would be an odds-on favorite to win. As the campaign came to an end last week, Duc expected to get no more than 20% of the vote...