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From there, the spirit and momentum of the suffragette movement guide the action of the play as the women replace peaceful political protest with arson and destruction of property. They repeatedly encounter set-backs, but in the final scene--after the women recapitulate their repeated imprisonments, their acts of burning down prominent homes and even the death of one of their members--it is clear that the momentum will be translated into voting rights...
...majesties that they were named for. Launched in 1968, the Queen Elizabeth 2 was never as regal as the old Queen Mary (now a dry-docked tourist attraction in Long Beach, Calif.) or the first Queen Elizabeth (which sank outside Hong Kong harbor last January, the victim of suspected arson). Still, the Q.E. 2 retained, in its original design, at least some of the proud aura of the days when Britannia ruled the waves. But a $4½ million face-lifting, unveiled last week, seems to have turned the only Queen still afloat into a bit of a tart...
...death penalty has concentrated on eliminating "arbitrariness" by making death mandatory for certain crimes. A Florida commission named by Governor Reubin Askew recently recommended that the death penalty be required for anyone convicted of a premeditated murder or a murder in connection with rape, kidnaping, hijacking, bombing or arson. A group of 19 state attorneys general is now busy drafting proposals ranging from a U.S. constitutional amendment to a model law with a mandatory death sentence for such crimes as murder by contract or the killing of a policeman. At least ten state legislatures will consider capital-punishment bills...
...summit has not been pretty," said Gold. "We have learned of deals involving the sale of narcotics, extortion and loan-sharking, corruption, coercion, bookmaking, policy, assault and robbery, burglaries, counterfeiting, hijacking, receiving stolen property, forgery, possession and sale of weapons, labor racketeering, stolen-auto rings, untaxed cigarettes, insurance frauds, arson of businesses, the cutting up of autos and boats, prostitution and violations of Alcohol Beverage Control Laws...
...when their citizenship was denied by the government. Amin had originally promised the country's 23,000 Asians who are Ugandan citizens that they were not affected by the expulsion order; then he declared that they too would be forced to leave "because of acts of sabotage and arson." Later he reversed himself again and said that the citizens could stay on if their papers were in order-a strong hint that many more would be deprived of their citizenship for technical reasons. By last week Amin was suggesting that the country's 11,000 European residents (mostly...