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...dark-skinned Bengali Moslems try to survive by informing on their equally dark-skinned Bengali Hindu neighbors. In India, meanwhile, the sight of a Hindu mob seeking vengeance for some Moslem insult is all too familiar. Such incidents have grown fairly frequent since 1964, when the theft of what was purported to be a sacred hair of Mohammed from a mosque in Kashmir sparked three months of turmoil throughout India and East Pakistan. Two years ago, 1,000 Indians were dead and 30,000 homeless after a week of rioting that followed an incident in the modern industrial city...
...controversy began in January when a teen-ager accused of car theft was murdered in a crowded Miami jail cell. The killing evoked angry responses from press and public, and the legislature hastily ordered the state supreme court to issue rules requiring prompt trials. The court directed that those accused of felonies must be tried within 180 days or set free; those charged with lesser offenses have to be tried within 90 days. If any defendant formally requests a prompt trial, the time limit is 60 days. The court's directive came less than a month after the youth...
...pilot's criticism of an FBI attempt to prevent a skyjacking, Hoover first tried to have the pilot fired, then ordered his agents not to fly on TWA any more. Hoover also concluded that the Xerox Corp. was not cooperating sufficiently in an investigation of the theft of documents from an FBI office in Media, Pa. The FBI learned that copies of the documents distributed to newspapers were made on Xerox machines, and Xerox executives, in Hoover's judgment, did not disclose enough about customers who used the Xerox machines. He proposed replacing all of the FBI Xerox...
...high order-P.G. Wodehouse in near-perfect form. In no time at all, the Earl of Sidcup has caught Bertie in an innocent but compromising position with his fiancée, Florence has threatened to marry him, and Runkle has promised to jail him for the theft of his 17th century silver porringer...
...Harvard dining hall units have been checking this week for the stolen coupon books. Frank Weisbecker, Associate Director of the Food Services, said yesterday. "I can't remember a theft like this happening before--it's really unusual. We have contacted the units for added security, and we hope to find all the books...