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Sir: Would not "trial by newspaper" [Nov. 27] cease or be drastically curtailed in the U.S. if the British Commonwealth legal principle in such cases were followed? Under this procedure, once an accused has been brought into court nothing may be said publicly about the case that is not given...
Neatness of execution, however, was not always a virtue even to Rodin, although aptness of thought was. The vogue for primitive art has led some sculptors to making fetishes. Edward Kienholz, 37, assembles objects from Grandmother's Victorian parlor and makes them into a wild and woolly revulsion called...
All-Fronts Alarm. Since September, after the war began to turn against them, the rebels had been holding a U.S. medical missionary, Dr. Paul Carlson, 36, on absurd charges that he was "an American spy and an American major." Carlson, member of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, had seen...
The government pamphlets circulating in Port-au-Prince last week left little to the imagination. "Dr. Francois Duvalier will fulfill his sacrosanct mission. He has crushed and will always crush the attempts of the opposition. Think well, renegades. Here is the fate awaiting you and your kind." Below was a...
To guarantee an S.R.O. crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backlands peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince. As TV cameras recorded the scene, a black and white Jeep pulled up to the cemetery, and out stepped the two victims. They were tied...