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...Bolshevik revolution, the Soviet secret police, known successively as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB and, since 1954, the KGB, has been synonymous with terror and coercion. It brings to mind the worst excesses of the Stalinist period: the public show trials and confessions exacted through torture, the random arrests and midnight executions in the infamous Lubyanka prison. KGB "sleepers" penetrating to the heart of Western intelligence services are now a staple of espionage fiction, film?and reality. Reports that Bulgarian agents in Rome may have aided Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca in his attempted assassination of Pope John...
...News Office makes no effort to understand the "rambling" letters. One, written in multi-colored inks, is addressed to "Former Associates of J. Edgar Hoover." It is a disorganized discussion of mental illness making as much sense as the random change of ink color...
...Furman vs. Georgia, the Supreme Court nullified all 40 death-penalty statutes and the sentences of 629 death-row inmates, declaring that judges and juries had intolerably wide discretion to impose death or not. This lack of standards made the death sentence "freakishly imposed" on "a capriciously selected random handful" of murderers, wrote Justice Potter Stewart. "These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." Within a few years, 37 state legislatures had passed statutes designed especially to meet the court's objections...
Nixon's simplistic outlook is not confined to ridiculous quotes called at random from the text of his work, however For all the contact and friendship he had with the world's power-brokers. Nixon adds strikingly little to stereotyped images of the Churchill and DeGaulles So what if Churchill was fascinating at the dinner table? Nixon's 35 page discussion of the British leader reads more like an informed person's biography than a President's memoirs...
...following list is drawn from only one source, the 1980 New York Times, with random additions from the last decade. To the best of my knowledge, it represents the first collection of all these cases in one place. In each, the officer is white and the victim Black (Hispanic in one case). And for each incident in the news, dozens more must be assumed to go unnoticed outside of Black communities...