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...legal documents protect them. West Germany's constitution prohibits the extradition of its own citizens. The 1954 accord between the Allies and Bonn prohibits the retrial in Germany of a war criminal if he has already been convicted in a French, British or U.S. court. That provision was designed to prevent lenient German judges from retrying war criminals after Allied courts had convicted them, and giving them lighter sentences. Ironically, the provision has served to protect those who were tried in absentia in Allied courts but then surfaced after 1955, when West Germany regained its sovereignty. As a result...
...institution in 1956, has made notable improvements. When he took over, there were seven doctors for 3,000 patients; now the ratio is 30 to 1,688, with 1,070 other employees, a ratio recommended by the American Psychiatric Association. Today, 54% of the patients come of their own accord; 15 years ago, only 10% did so, and the average stay has been reduced from three years to less than twelve months...
...Rocha's dialectical construction tells us the precise nature of their relationship. As elsewhere, dialectic shows itself to be the best way of understanding events, of laying them open to us. The central fact about this film, the root of its success, is that its method is perfectly in accord with our understanding: dialectic may or may not be the way material reality functions, but it's certainly the way our conscious reasoning and our dramatic imagination work...
...accord with that tentative decision, Munro and Gomez will meet today to discuss the Crimson's strategy in Wednesday's game against Tufts...
...verdict is nationwide. New York's Daily News, whose pollsters have miscalled only three out of 30 major U.S. elections, canvassed more than 22,000 readers this month, reported 83% wearing skirts above the knee (a percentage in accord with the daily "Hem Line Index," compiled by Manhattan's Women's Haberdashers shops and posted in the window of the main store). Sales figures for the midi are harder to come by, though a representative of a chain of Boston dress shops admits, "Business is not as bouncy as we would like...