Word: compliants
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...Brother of the Arab world, the Soviets have been kicked out of Egypt; relations with both Syria and Iraq have chilled. Despite ample military aid to leftists in Mozambique, Angola and elsewhere, they are not yet a viable power in Africa. Somalia, once Moscow's most compliant ally on the continent, is gradually rejecting Russia's influence; as the U.S. did in Viet Nam the Kremlin is learning that superpowers cannot always control or contain their client states...
Cruel but rich in comic relief, Chicago follows the murder trial of Roxie Hart, a "foxy lady" who has one of her many affairs with a furniture salesman, shoots him in a rage and then talks her compliant husband into confessing to the murder. He blows her cover, however, and Roxie finds herself in the friendly confines of the Cook County Jail where the lady inmates, fresh from the opening and most impressive number entitled "All That Jazz", dance cell-door-in-hand to the beat of "Cell Block Tango...
...Sudden Rush for Blood" [Nov. 22]: Whom are we really trying to protect? Surely not Gary Mark Gilmore. I understand the right of appeal to be just that-a right, a privilege-not a demand to be forced on a compliant convicted person...
Gnomon lodged a compliant with the Massachusetts attorney general, claiming J. August was illegally selling under cost. But the attorney general's office never took action on the matter. Gnomon also fought back directly by offering the J. August price to customers who specifically requested...
...peccadillo (knocking that cake from a woman's hands) was exaggerated into "hooliganism," which is a felony in the Soviet Union. The possession of Zionist literature became evidence of treasonous intent. Even so, convictions had to be obtained by means of crudely rigged trials presided over by compliant or, in some cases, intimidated court officers...