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...plunged into a lonely, uphill custody battle for her son and daughter. The case is still pending in a San Bernardino courtroom, and could easily snowball into a major East-West propaganda confrontation. Whatever the outcome, it has already become something of a diplomatic cause célèbre...
...Soviets-and most other U.N. delegations, for that matter-the cause célèbre of the week was not China, but a cowardly sniper attack on a roomful of Russian children, apparently perpetrated by an adherent of the tinhorn terrorist Jewish Defense League. One evening at midweek, four rifle bullets crashed through an eleventh-floor bedroom window in the massive East Side Manhattan building that houses the large Soviet mission to the U.N. The shots were not heard by the 700 guests attending a lively reception on the lower floors, but they narrowly missed four embassy children...
South of Manmethout at Buon M'Bre, U. S. engineers cleared substantial land for Montagnards who resettled last October. But when they arrived at Buon M'bre, Vietnamese had already begun to move onto their land...
Cause Célèbre. The result is a grotesque charade. For the past six months, gendarmes have stormed a Montmartre printing plant once each fortnight. There they seize and confiscate every issue of La Cause they can find. But the sly old iconoclast long ago found a secret printing press to publish about 5,000 copies. On publication day, Sartre and a few friends (including Film Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and his longtime companion, Simone de Beauvoir) pick up the papers, transport them to a side street near St.-Germain...
...police raid on a Black Panther apartment in Chicago last December has become a cause célèbre. Police claimed that they were attacked as they sought to enter the apartment, whereas Panthers claimed that the two of their number who were killed had been more or less passive victims. Last week a federal grand jury wound up its investigation by citing "the irreconcilable disparity between the accounts given by the officers and the physical evidence." The results were inconclusive, since they failed to clear up the vital questions of just what happened in the predawn raid that...