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Speaking before a special one-week session of the legislature-whose approval was necessary under the constitution to extend the emergency beyond 60 days-Mrs. Gandhi sought to justify the extreme measures her government has taken. They include the suspension of civil liberties, the imposition of rigid press censorship and the arrest of an estimated 10,000 people, among them ranking opposition political leaders as well as some dissident members of Mrs. Gandhi's own Congress Party. Arguing that the emergency "was undertaken not to destroy the constitution but to safeguard democracy," she said the proclamation had been...
Skimpy Profit. Pan Am will not be grounded-at least not immediately. A small tax credit and changes in accounting methods enabled the airline to show a skimpy profit of $4 million for the second quarter. Through rigid cost-cutting measures that included reducing employment by 3,100, Pan Am has lowered its break-even point from a too-high 58% of seats filled to an acceptable under 50%. Still, the airline slipped back into the red by $4.7 million during June, and a huge loss for all 1975 appears inevitable. A new crunch will come in the fall, when...
Come to think about it-and there is plenty of time to do so in The Drowning Pool-the traditional private-eye format does not suit movies all that well. It demands a rigid structure as the detective pursues his investigation like a mailman on his route, moving from door to door, picking up a shred of information, depositing another, occasionally having his appointed rounds interrupted by some mayhem...
...Attempting to tighten discipline and doctrine on what he saw as a drifting ship, Preus cracked down. His main targets were faculty members of the denomination's major academic arm, Concordia Seminary of St. Louis. These teachers, who in the ensuing debate styled themselves moderates, take a less rigid view of the Bible, accepting modern interpretation that explains the story of Adam and Eve, for instance, less as history than myth. In 1974 Preus won the ouster of the seminary's president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, on charges of fostering "false doctrine." Supporting Tietjen, the majority...
...answer is that private businessmen must decide but Government can do more to help them. It should do so not by setting up rigid five-year plans, but by employing the best of its fallible methods to give early warnings of what raw materials and investments will be most needed...