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...Shield on the Underbelly. The highway project reflects Bulgaria's growing interest in cultivating its once-hated Balkan neighbors. Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev visited Ankara last year, recently approved an agreement with Greece to increase trade and tourism. Exulted one Bulgarian in Sofia last week: "The Balkan powder keg is a thing of the past." Nothing dies harder in the Balkans than ancient history, however, and the Bulgarians are still effusive each year in their thanks to Russia for freeing them from Turkish bondage 88 years ago. What's more, the Kremlin is pleased to see Bulgaria...
...moment the mailed fist of U.S. power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations take place, most U.S. officers in Viet Nam think the U.S. will need to be around for a long time in force to ensure that all the local Viet Cong, from village cops to schoolteachers, are identified...
...parents of an infant with suspicious injuries are presumed guilty of abuse-and must prove otherwise or lose custody of their child. Until now, many of the country's "battered children" (10,000 a year) lacked such protection because few can speak and their parents shield one another. Brooklyn Family Court Judge Harold Felix has attacked all that in the case of an infant whom a hospital found suffering from broken legs and ribs. Charged with abuse, the parents sought dismissal for lack of evidence against them. Judge Felix invoked the negligence-law principle of res ipsa loquitur...
...civilly dead"-his family can even dispense with his name. Mark Fein was a respectable Manhattan container manufacturer who secretly consorted with gamblers and prostitutes. Last year Fein received a 30-year-to-life sentence for murdering his bookie to avoid paying a $23,898 World Series bet. To shield her three children from the seamy publicity, Fein's wife Nancy sought to resume her maiden name of Nahon. Permission granted, ruled Judge George Starke last week. Not only has Fein lost all civil rights, from suing to voting to making contracts; any contract he ever made...
...Cable, Too. Nolting went on to urge "a strong and effective military shield" to protect the new development of democracy in Viet Nam and argued against any compromise with North Viet Nam. "On this point also," he concluded, "I find myself in opposition to the prevailing views of The Times...