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France, which should have four divisions in the NATO line, has siphoned off 2½ for the fighting in Algeria. Far from being apologetic. French Chief of Staff General Paul Ely last week demanded that NATO commit itself to the defense of all French territories in Africa. "Upon pain of death," declared General Ely, NATO must develop a "peripheral strategy" to prevent the U.S.S.R. from subverting Africa and thereby turning NATO's Mediterranean flank...
...cause of suicide is too much reason. Animals, as you know, do not commit suicide...
...only recent playwright whose treatment of a stylish professional world, by comparison with The Man Who Came to Dinner, for example, seems raspingly lacking in style. Once More, With Feeling has none of the stealthy purr-and-scratch of music-world wit; rascals are roughnecks, megalomaniacs commit mayhem, bull fiddles see red. There is not a touch of urbane caricature, it is all plebeian cartooning; and even on its own would be broad popular terms, the play has no real Broadway bounce...
...life imprisonment], the main consideration being that none of the eight men found guilty initiated the order, but all acted as instruments in transmitting and implementing it." But the judgment added, it is Israeli criminal law, inherited from the British, that an Israeli soldier must disregard an order to commit a "manifestly unlawful" act-one so monstrous that "it blinded the eyes and stabbed at the heart" of the "average" person...
...there is a similar lack of activity but it is because politics is so integrally related to campus and career. Several university students state that they did not want to endanger their scholarship standing by being vocal supporters of any one political party. Moreover, federal and regional scholarship terms commit them to five years' employment in a government department after graduation, and incipient civil servants are wise to avoid entangling alliances with parties. They are expected to be apart from such things...