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...lurid press aftermath of big British criminal cases is a direct result of the country's stringent laws governing coverage of crime. Although a trial can be reported in full, any paper that goes beyond the testimony-even to describe the mien of the magistrate on the bench-risks heavy fines and severe punishment. Behind such enforced discipline accumulates the enormous urge of a newspaper to tell the whole story-as well as an enormous public urge to hear it. Then the checkbooks come...
...Government Association recommends tomorrow that any student past her freshman year be allowed to sign out till any hour, it will run into a squall of opposition from a Briggs Hall contingent. The group contends that most 'Cliffies cannot regulate their social lives without recourse to a set of stringent rules, and concludes that the College should retain its present restrictions. Their stand is short-sighted and does not deserve to be taken seriously by anyone concerned with Radcliffe's future as a leader in women's education...
...violate the agreement. The best deterrent against other nation's testing is the threat that the other will resume and negate the advantage. Thus the U.S. should be willing to reverse its recent insistence on inspection of preparations, not simply because access to secret laboratories is a demand more stringent than those the USSR has already rejected, but precisely because the ability to test on short notice is the sensible, paramilitary means of implementing a test ban treaty...
...leisurely manner. Unlike many French diplomats, he believes in frankness, is fond of quoting Aristide Briand's axiom: "When circumstances are really important, one must say the same thing to everybody." He refused to give way on the key issues: continued French ownership of Sahara oil and stringent guarantees for Algeria's European minority. The first round of talks broke up last June after only three weeks; a second conference, in July, foundered after only eight days. When the Algerians cried that "the debate has become useless and aimless," Joxe declared: "Our nerves are steady...
...Everyone has to discover that there is an unwritten code," stated Perkowski. "It would be unwise to legislate as though rules in our society were not more stringent for women than they are for men," he added...