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...prominent judges whose "irregularities" were well known. Last week the diplomatic service was called up on its own red carpet. Sacked "for not properly representing Lebanon" were the ambassadors to Russia, Iran, Cyprus, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Senegal and Argentina (the ambassadors to Britain and Egypt had quit beforehand...
Three nights later, Ioannis bludgeoned his sleeping father with a hatchet, then stood by with his mother and sister while Vlachos suffocated to death in his own gore. ("Get a towel," Helena had warned beforehand. "There will be a lot of blood.") The family went to the police and told the whole story. Only then did they learn, to their astonishment, that their deed is punishable in West Germany by life imprisonment. "But I had to avenge my father's crime," protested Ioannis. "Why is it murder?" Even his sister Paschalina, 12, agreed: "What my brother did was right...
...Some young Americans can ... live without a guarantee that they have made the best or the only choice: and this capacity to make commitments without guarantees is a prime symptom of strength of character. But others--perhaps most young Americans--undergo a period of confusion beforehand, and often seek escapes from their freedom...
...elaborate screening process, agreed on by Government and party attorneys beforehand and designed to ferret out both pro-and anti-Communist bias, Judge William B. Jones asked the eight women and four men picked to hear the case in U.S. District Court to swear that they 1) did not regard the Communist Party as "subversive" or a threat to themselves or their families; 2) felt no "hostility" toward the party; 3) had "not read, seen or heard anything derogatory about the party," and 4) would not doubt the truthfulness of any officer of the party or the party itself...
...With respect to open parties, proctors set a limit beforehand to the number of guests and require members of the proctorial unit to assume responsibility for any non-Harvard guests...