Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fees of up to $450), the effort was achieving some success. As work progressed, General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's military leader, answered questions from TIME Correspondent James Wilde. In his first individual interview since the end of the civil war, Gowon maintains a determinedly optimistic and perhaps unrealistic view of Nigeria's chances of restoring unity. He also displays a prickly sensitivity about intervention by outsiders, even when their chief concern seems to be helping his country toward recovery. Excerpts...
Card Game. During the Central Committee's debate on economic policy, the extremists also won the day, though their plans are certain only to worsen the already chaotic situation. Echoing the hard-line view, Planning Minister Václav Hula denounced the decentralization reforms effected by Dubček's chief economist Ota Sik, who last week asked for political asylum in Switzerland. "The economic crisis," Hula declared, "can only be overcome by radical centralization. We shall have to reestablish party control over the upper echelons of industry...
...Nixon Administration-would be to legalize "preventive" pretrial detention, imposing it after the safeguard of a full hearing. Other reformers place greater emphasis on speeding trials to shorten the time in which an arrested suspect's rights might be abused or he might commit additional crimes. In view of the nation's chronic court congestion, however, the reformers also urge judges to take more immediate steps, freeing most defendants on reasonable bail and using ways other than jail to assure that they reappear for trial and behave lawfully. Obvious techniques include ordering close surveillance or frequent check...
Washington's National Gallery of Art has received the most. It keeps a constantly changing selection on permanent view. Next week, as the traveling exhibition ends its triumphant two-year, twelve-city tour of Europe and North America, 35 choice items will rejoin the collection in the nation's capital. This is appropriate enough, since the skillful but unschooled work of these painters is distinctly American...
...fetishists with a series of long skirts that are almost as revealing as the mini, and even more alluring. The Cardin trick: a slit that runs from ankle to thigh, occurs either at the sides or at the back and front, and flashes skin in and out of view as the wearer moves, affording viewers the best peep show in town...