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...judge had ruled last Wednesday that four of the nine defense lawyers who withdrew from the case by telegram as the trial opened were in contempt of court. He issued warrants for their arrests, and two of the lawyers were actually arrested and transported back to Chicago. The judge told the defendants that if they felt they wee being "adequately defended," he would release the lawyers...
...four lawyers who withdrew had agreed to do only pretrial work for the case. The judge ruled them in contempt because they did not appear in court, after sending the telegrams...
Pattullo. on the other hand is one of Harvard's biggest experts on the Project. His Center for the Behavioral Sciences withdrew an application for research grants from the National Science Foundation after hearing about the Project. Without official Harvard endorsement of the project. Pattullo said yesterday, individual Harvard participants "would be in a 'beggars at the table' position- wholly dependent on the M. I. T. group...
...Zwan) "talks, thinks and acts like a Chinese," but he is believed to be neutral, or even mildly inclined toward Moscow, in the Sino-Soviet dispute. Imprisoned for ten years by the French, he began his career late but climbed fast. When the country was divided in 1954, Hanoi withdrew its crack troops from the South but assigned Le Duan there to prepare politically for a second round. He was so effective, as the later success of the Viet Cong proved, that...
...next day blandly urged him, in the interests of national unity, to stay on as Vice President of the country-though not of the party. Kapwepwe could scarcely refuse and risk being cast as an unpatriotic villain. At a press conference in the Vice President's villa, he withdrew his resignation in what he described as a "spirit of selflessness...