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...Kenya told harrowing new tales of Amin's murderous campaign of repression against members of the Christian Lango and Acholi tribes, whom he regards as his enemies. There were reports of house-to-house searches and sweeping arrests. Among the prominent Ugandans who "disappeared" last week were Byron Kawadwa, who had led the Uganda troupe to the recent Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Nigeria, and Tucker Lwanage, chief librarian at Makerere University. A student who fled after his uncle was seized by police said he had heard that between...
...Earl Warren was plucked from California's governorship to become Chief Justice in 1953-though he had also been a D.A. and the state's attorney general. At present, there are three men on the Supreme Court-Justices William H. Rehnquist, Lewis F. Powell and Byron R. White-who had not been judges before their appointment. Bird, a quick study and a tireless administrator, is highly regarded by lawyers who know her work. Says Cornell Law School's Deputy Dean Judith T. Younger: "She'll learn soon enough...
...Brady, 48, fought his way through snow and ice on Monday morning to find his office scarcely less chilling. There to greet him was a sheaf of resignations. Departing were not only the magazine's creator and editor, Clay Felker, but also Design Director Milton Glaser, Managing Editor Byron Dobell (who agreed to stay through a brief transition) and 20 other editorial hands, including such notables as Tom Wolfe, Financial Writer George ("Adam Smith") Goodman, Washington Reporter Richard Reeves, Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem, Press Critic Edwin Diamond and Gail Sheehy, bestselling author (Passages) and Felker's companion...
...housecleaning at the Pall Mall branch of Barclays Bank the other day, officials opened the unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley; and two possibly unpublished poems by Shelley. Also scattered in the trunk were some 14 letters from Byron, including a complaint that he had picked up another dose of gonorrhea...
...tried to win him a reprieve, the decisive intervention came when Stanford Law Professor Anthony G. Amsterdam moved in the following day, on behalf of Gilmore's mother. Amsterdam, a leader in the fight against capital punishment for a decade, filed a petition with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, who is responsible for emergency appeals in the Utah area. "The need for a stay of execution is obvious," said Amsterdam. "Such stays are commonly granted in death cases. Indeed, the only factor that makes this application unusual is [Gilmore's] assertion that he wished to be executed." Among...