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Congratulations! You are the recipient of a new right, courtesy of the World Health Organization. Its panel of experts, and take it from the Times they are experts, has proclaimed the “right to receive sexual information and to consider accepting sexual relationships for pleasure as well as for procreation.” Just one question: does “consider accepting” mean you can’t accept yet? Wait for WHO’s next panel discussion, and regard this one as so much foreplay.

You can find it way back there on p. 55 of the January 13 New York Times in the continuation of a story on the “Gulf Oil Scandal.” When he testified before Sam Ervin’s Special Committee on Watergate back in 1973, says Gulf lobbyist Claude C. Wild Jr., not a single senator on the Committee asked whether Gulf cash had been used for anything besides the single illegal contribution of $100,000 to the Nixon campaign. Wild, says the Times, “was later quoted as having told Gulf officials that he had furnished money at one time or another to nearly every senator on the Select Committee.” Where were Bernstein and Woodward then? Where, come to think of it, are they now?

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Congratulations! You are the recipient of a new right, courtesy of the World Health Organization. Its panel of experts, and take it from the Times they are experts, has proclaimed the “right to receive sexual information and to consider accepting sexual relationships for pleasure as well as for procreation.” Just one question: does “consider accepting” mean you can’t accept yet? Wait for WHO’s next panel discussion, and regard this one as so much foreplay.

You can find it way back there on p. 55 of the January 13 New York Times in the continuation of a story on the “Gulf Oil Scandal.” When he testified before Sam Ervin’s Special Committee on Watergate back in 1973, says Gulf lobbyist Claude C. Wild Jr., not a single senator on the Committee asked whether Gulf cash had been used for anything besides the single illegal contribution of $100,000 to the Nixon campaign. Wild, says the Times, “was later quoted as having told Gulf officials that he had furnished money at one time or another to nearly every senator on the Select Committee.” Where were Bernstein and Woodward then? Where, come to think of it, are they now?