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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-eight hours later the government proudly announced to the world that Kostov had been hanged. It also made an extraordinary claim which it did not document; before the end, said the Ministry of Justice, Kostov had made a groveling plea for mercy and a "full confession." The late Traicho Kostov, who was in no position to deny the tale, was quoted as explaining that his defiant attitude in court had been due to "nervous agitation and the unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Truth on the Gallows | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Monday the Council voted to recommend the inclusions in the "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations" a provision making illegal the constitution of any undergraduate organization if the document includes a discriminatory membership clause. The resolution, beaten the first time it was introduced, passed by one vote on a later vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Might Restudy Club Bias Decision | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Amidst charges of undignified conduct and personal effrontery, the Student Council last night ruled by a one vote margin to make illegal the constitution of any undergraduate organization if the the document includes a discriminatory membership clause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Opposed to Discrimination, Votes to Act Against NROTC Oath | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...problem of trusteeship was chopped in two parts in the UN Charter. Chapter XI of that document deals with dependent areas already being administered by individual nations, while Chapters XII and XIII provide machinery for the General Assembly to assume or delegate administrative powers over certain regions...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...picture scores a clear victory as a depressing document on the Roman terrain, particularly the remains of Mussolini's passion for majestic expanses of concrete. And De Sica's directing of his child star-Staiola's meanderings and scramblings, his thousand & one childish mannerisms, from unbuttoning his pants to his perplexed concentration on the chattering face of an Austrian priest-is worth several admission prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Import | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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