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...shooting. Against anguished protests from defense attorneys, Dean reported: "He said something about he had thought about killing Oswald two nights prior, when he had seen Harvey Oswald on the show-up stand." Continued Dean: "He said he believed in due process of law, but he was so torn up about this, he and his sister also -his sister had just gotten out of the hospital and she was very emotional also-and he said because this man had not only killed the President but also Officer Tippit, he knew the outcome of the trial would be inevitable-Oswald would...
...leading some 290,000 East Indians against 330,000 anti-Jagan Negroes and whites split between two major parties. Full independence was expected this year or next. But last October, after eleven weeks of strikes and violence, Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys indefinitely postponed complete freedom for the tiny, strife-torn land. Sandys ordered new elections by the end of 1964, and decreed that they would be held under proportional representation instead of the simple majority rule that Jagan prefers. Sandys' obvious hope is to encourage party coalitions, thus weakening Jagan's power. Jagan's response has been...
Central to the project, then, is the anticipated lawlessness of Mississippi whites. The planners reason that massive non-violence will precipitate a crisis of violence, which they consider prerequisite for further progress. Understandably, such candid reasoning disturbs moderates torn between respect for civil tranquility and support for civil rights. In this case, however, rights and tranquility are not compatible...
Born. To Geraldine Page, 39, who played Tennessee Williams' fading beauty in Sweet Bird of Youth, and Rip Torn, 34, her third husband and co-star in last year's revival of O'Neill's Strange Interlude: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan...
...Christ is of a "divinely mad young man, nailed to a cross, jeered at and hated, riddled by bloody Roman spears, helpless in the face of his enemies-the pitiful body of the alleged son of God, gasping, panting, sweating, bleeding, without a miracle to save him." And yet, torn by inner doubt as he is, when the Chinese Communists enter the war and the U.N. forces are forced to retreat to the south, Mr. Shin elects to remain with his congregation in Pyongyang. "We will give them their Christ and their Judas," Mr. Shin explains. For he has come...