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...deals must be struck with what Reagan has called an "evil empire," a nation that reserves "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat," then the U.S. must insist on the most intrusive, comprehensive inspection measures to assure that the Soviets are not violating any new agreement by hiding weapons that are supposed to be limited...
Arenella said that the state already has the power to commit a defendant acquitted by reason of insanity to a mental institution, making the proposed legislation superfluous...
...controversial actions, the regime briefly shut down the left-wing Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet. Reason: the paper had reprinted a tough 1961 editorial criticizing reactionary efforts to subvert Turkey's cultural institutions. A military prosecutor charged Publisher Nadir Nadi, 75, who wrote the editorial, with "openly provoking people to commit a crime." The authorities also brought to trial Actress Isik Yenersu, who had read two poems by the Communist poet Nazim Hikmet Ran at a cultural event in Paris late last year. She was charged with "acting to disgrace Turkey...
Police officials declined to comment last night on whether the woman was attempting to commit suicide when she jumped in front of the train...
...COULD HOPE, of course to win over the Nazis: Paranoids who see Jewish conspiracies behind every personal misfortune are notoriously impervious to facts. Most of the Nazis who bought Staeglich's book have ignored the incontrovertible fact that Hitler tried to commit genocide and came dangerously close to succeeding. In The Auschwitz Myth they seek new excuses to justify their long-held beliefs. But for the rational people whose curiosity might be piqued by a book banning, better to criticize the book than forbid...