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Lance Morrow's "Rediscovering America" [July 7] was an enlightened, critical and sensitive review of recent American history. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1786, "History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future...
...haven't sorted it out yet. You know, little flashes of insight here and there. But that is still too fresh to deal with." Yet, with the exception of John Connally, who declined to speak about his campaign at all, the other four major challengers did agree to review their experience in campaigning for the presidency. Unlike other political experts, these men have actually lived through the process...
Trade policy. The President said he would ask for a faster review of the United Auto Workers' request for restrictions on Japanese-car imports...
...film project: Up in Smoke, a picaresque comedy of two low riders in search of the biggest marijuana joint in the world. Surprisingly, it grossed $104 million world-wide; not surprisingly, Universal eagerly produced their next film, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, which opens today (see review). In Boston to publicize the new film, the duo submitted to an early morning press conference...
...decisions confirmed earlier impressions that the Justices of the Burger Court decide cases on the basis of a painstaking review of the merits of each one rather than by the dictates of any overriding political or judicial philosophy. If there was any general theme to last week's decisions, it was judicial restraint: a tendency to respect the acts of legislators and ancient tradition. In the abortion and quotas cases, the court let bitterly disputed decisions by Congress stand, and in the trials case it stressed an Anglo-American tradition of public trials going back to before the Norman...