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...as two dozen Leftist guerrillas who had occupied the National Palace, three score freed political prisoners, and a few churchmen and diplomats made their way to the airport, bound for asylum in Panama...

...The ERA forces have had their fair chance...

...Congress has the right to change the rules it has set, maintain the advocates, and if Paris was worth a mass, surely this great cause is worth a simple rule change...

...Yet if the regime had not given in, then, we must presume, some of the hostages would have been killed, and there would have been no time or inclination to sort out the "guilty" from the "innocent...

...To be sure, one man's democracy is another man's despotism...

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...Their failure, in fact, has less to do with the number of years than with the misconceptions of their campaign and the smoke generated by their opponents...

...The maneuver is a conventional one in political life, and only those who believed that women would bring a higher standard to that battlefield will be shocked...

...terror by government invites terror by its opponents...

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...The people who hijack planes or set off bombs to draw attention to their cause do not have the luxury of being choosy...

...And the cost of everybody's individual liability insurance is inflated by large court settlements and exaggerated claims...

...It has turned out to be an illuminating fight—more of a class struggle than a battle of the sexes...

...that is, terrorism is in the mind of the beholder...

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...Those who continue to feel that an equal rights amendment is necessary have the duty to begin the process of amending the Constitution again—with a somewhat lengthier time limit if they think they need it and can get it...

...The opponents' spectres of unisex toilets, of babes ripped prematurely from their mothers' skirts, are merely part of a scare campaign to titillate an audience soaked in Gothic romances—although the courts will assuredly have their work cut out for them should the amendment pass, for it is phrased more like a Biblical commandment than a Constitutional statute...

...Insurance rates are set that way because drivers with a good past history are less likely to have accidents in the future...

...it may not pay to buy any collision insurance...

...The cruelest aspect of political terrorism is its random choice of victims or potential victims...

...Liability insurance protects you against the claims of others...

...If only a couple of dozen well-armed opponents of Hitler had taken over the Reichstag and threatened to blow the place up unless all inmates of concentration camps were released, ahhhh...

...The argument for extension comes down to this: The ERA is of such overriding importance that to permit its defeat on a technicality would be a political sin...

...The practical joker whose hijack note on a TWA plane in Switzerland called for the release from prison of Rudolf Hess, Sirhan Sirhan and a batch of Croatians was a sharp parodist of the international revolutionary style...

...for now they have lost, as other worthy causes have lost...

...The Managuan Marxists would doubtless dismiss that question as irrelevant or effete...

...American Rules If you can understand why a boxer who has lost eight rounds of a scheduled 14-round bout but remained on his feet might urge the judges, in the 14th round, to extend the contest, you will have no trouble understanding the campaign by some supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to increase the period available for its ratification by the states...

...Where dictatorships are strong, such exploits cannot succeed...

...If so, will the new rulers permit more freedom than the Somozas, or will they merely place a stronger guard over their National Palace...

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...Every issue needs a frame in which the contending forces may operate without the battle spilling into the streets...

...In many parts of the country the average cost of car insurance has risen over 50% in the past five years...

...If opponents of a government are permitted to organize, demonstrate, campaign, yet still choose the weapons of terror, then we must suspect two things—one, that they have no hope of support from the people whom they purport to represent, and two, that they are enamored of violence for its own sake or, at any rate, are bewitched by their own rhetoric...

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...Moreover, their demands were clear and could readily be met by the regime...

...SO CAN HIGHER DEDUCTIBLES...

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...The only real complaint leveled against this period is that it has not proved adequate for the amendment's advocates...

...Next March, the set term of seven years will be over and the amendment will still be short of the required number of approvals...

...Good rules make good politics...

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...But just look what happens when you increase the deductibles to $200 on comprehensive and $500 on collision: In Los Angeles, for example, the typical annual premium for a safe driver will drop from $358 to $197...

...One dares not speak for other people's consciences—but a look around the world, at the prisons and reeducation camps and torture chambers and psychiatric institutions and graves to which dissenters are consigned by self-proclaimed revolutionary regimes, nevertheless leads to at least this conclusion: Those who are nurtured on blood in their drive for power do not soon lose the taste when they acquire power...

...There are people in such relatively open societies as Italy, West Germany and our own who have nevertheless taken to the bomb or the machine gun...

...It gives the state legislatures time enough to consider the measure, yet not so much time that the issue or the electorate will have changed character...

...Terrorism, they would surely observe, is merely the extension of politics by other means—and there are Irishmen and Croatians and Palestinians and black Africans who would cry a hearty "Amen...

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...Such are the rules of that kind of political condition: Illegality begets illegality...

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...Only if the rules in each dispute are clear and agreed on and respected by all sides can the nation's business proceed in an orderly and civil manner...

...The widespread opposition to the Somoza regime, including two general strikes and criticism from the business community, bespeaks the weakness that made the occupation of the Palace possible in the first place...

...The continuing guerrilla effort may hasten its demise, and what is bad for the Somozas, surely, is good for Nicaragua...

...What began in 1972 as a time of plenty, with approvals being harvested on all sides, has turned to a time of fast, as opponents in several states, invariably led by women, have beaten back the amendment and even persuaded a few legislatures to rescind their earlier support —acts which may or may not count in the final tally...

...Nobody takes hostages in the Soviet Union...

...Safe drivers pay lower premiums for both liability and collision coverage...

...But if we take the democratic process seriously, then the rules ought not be treated in so cavalier, or bawdy a way...

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...But that would not have worked...

...Be that as it may, at the moment some who favor passage, like myself, are nonetheless put off by the campaign for an extension...

...It calls for nothing less sweeping or more specific than equality between the sexes...

...The higher the deductible, the lower the premium...

...In similar circumstances, proponents of an antiabortion amendment would, we may be certain, demand a similar extension and its opponents, including most ERA champions, would oppose it on grounds of principle...

...By their lights, the murder of children is part of a "liberation" effort...

...To the credit of the Nicaraguan guerrillas, they have been well disciplined...

...Although liability insurance is required by law in many states, in light of the trend toward higher settlements, you should be sure that your coverage is adequate...

...That means they pay the first $100 on collision-related damages and the insurance company pays the rest...

...And that'll be good for you and good for us...

...Their premiums may be as much as 25...

...Broadly speaking, career-oriented women from the upper middle class have been confronted by family-oriented women from the lower middle class, and in the past year or so the latter have been in ascendance...

...How, after all, are dissenters to fight against governments that prohibit or severely restrict lawful opposition...

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...Perhaps for this new effort the authors of the amendment will exert themselves to spell out approximately what it is supposed to do, and so make the future debate more productive than the one that is now completing its seventh year...

...There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the limit of seven years...

...The hundreds of hostages in Nicaragua were taken at the nation's capital building, symbol of power, rather than in an aircraft chosen because it happened to be available and vulnerable...

...Here the test seems to me to be fairly simple...

...Why, by unlawful means of course, if they have the stomach for it...

...As for those in this country, in universities or editorial offices, who come forth as the rather admiring apologists for such outbursts, they require the services of either an analyst or a minister...

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...Some day soon the Somozas will probably be ousted...

...How many murders of the innocent can any cause justify...

...In a continent of unwholesome regimes, that of the Somoza family, at this writing still shakily led by President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, stands as one of the least wholesome...

...Each time they are changed for no better reason than to give advantage to one side, the frame is weakened, disarray threatens, a cloud of doubt is thrown over the outcome...

...That is probably unfortunate—but just how unfortunate it is difficult to say, since one is hard put to know exactly what the proposed amendment would accomplish...

...Although several people were killed when the National Palace was stormed, the guerrillas showed no disposition to kill for the sake of killing...