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...students arrested in last week's incident at the University's request are still awaiting notification from the city of Providence when their case will come up for trial. They face penalties of up to a year in jail and fines...
Bancroft said the demonstrators complied with the policemen's request...
...After independence, the state's ruler, Paramount Chief Kaiser Matanzima, will ask South Africa to give the Transkei more land to ease overcrowding (together, the nine homelands have only 13% of South Africa's land area). Pretoria is expected to refuse, on the rather arch grounds that such a request would amount to interference by a foreign state in South Africa's internal affairs...
...will almost certainly grant the urgent request, but will probably impose stringent conditions under which the Callaghan government will have to run the economy. Earlier this year the Group of Ten (industrial nations) had set up a credit line of $5.3 billion for Britain to be used as a weapon against the rapid deterioration of what was at one time the world's mightiest and proudest currency. About $1.23 billion of that total already borrowed by Britain must be paid back by December. Part of the debt will have to be paid with the new loan applied for last...
...Weedham Report, prepared at the request of the NIH, found that there have been 423 infections and three deaths in the last 25 years of operation under the most careful containment conditions at the Fort Detrick labs for study of viruses. Weedham concluded in his reports, "In the absence of effective vaccination, it is impossible to do basic research on a highly infective agent without laboratory infections...