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A committee that has been formed to aid the convicted teenagers argues that execution is unjustified in view of the offenders' youth and the fact that they had thrown themselves on the mercy of the court. The Rev. Frank Horton, a Negro minister who heads the committee, asks: "Would...
Like the Johnson Administration before him, President Nixon opposed the measure as an attempt to tie the Executive's hands in dealing with foreign countries. At best, the Nixon people felt, it might result in confusion in foreign chancelleries. At worst, it might hobble the execution of foreign policy...
Hell on Earth. Penderecki based The Devils of Loudun on both Aldous Huxley's historical essay and John Whiting's play The Devils. The libretto sketches the facts surrounding the torture and execution of a Jesuit priest in a 17th century French provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the...
a shot. In South Korea, a mere 3,500 men in an army of 600,000 put General Park Chung Hee in power. Luttwak's little classic explains how so few can fool so many. By revealing the necessary delicacy of timing-a single miscalculation of hours or minutes...
Far from stilling the demonstrations, the government's response only roused Argentine workers to sympathy for the students. The workers had their own grievances: the regime had frozen wages for more than two years, while the cost of living has risen more than 20%. When the unions declared a...