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...then police had obtained warrants charging four occupants of the Move headquarters -- Frank James Africa, Conrad Hampton Africa, Ramona Africa and Theresa Brooks Africa -- with parole violation, contempt of court, illegal possession of firearms, and making terroristic threats. To facilitate the execution of the warrants, authorities on Sunday cordoned off five blocks around the Move house and ordered the evacuation of 300 people by 10 that night. Last-ditch efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution were made Sunday by Bennie Swans, director of Philadelphia's Crisis Intervention Network. The Move group, he said, insisted they would cooperate with the authorities...
...broader way, Flaubert's Parrot also reflects the strange relationship with French culture that the British have always had, a profound--and mostly unreciprocated--appreciation existing under the shadow of centuries-old contempt and mistrust. (It's no mistake that France 1848-1945. The best and most comprehensive book on French culture, should have been written by an Oxford professor, Theodore Zeldin.) Braithwalie is a Gallophile as only an Englishman can be, revelling in the wine-tasting, the pharmacies, the road signs, the myriad facets of everyday, life with a delight unmediated by the ever-present chauvinism of the French...
...while such annual traditions are a soothing indication of continuity, familiarity can--and often does--breed contempt. In particular, the campus divestiture movement has long been in danger of blending too smoothly into the spring landscape. Since the massive divestiture rallies of 1978 and 1979, which brought as many as 3000 students into the streets of Cambridge, the movement has been unable to sustain its momentum. President Bok's reiteration of his opposition to divestiture in 1979 brought the issue to a stalemate, which has been all but unbreakable. Since then, divestiture protests have dwindled in both size and intensity...
Familiarity is said to breed either contempt or children, but it is not supposed to enhance a mystery. The West has grown familiar with Soviet transferals of power in the past 28 months: Brezhnev became Andropov became Chernenko. Last week the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, strode under Western eyes in the now easily recognizable setting of a Moscow funeral for a head of state: Soviet citizens lined up and bundled up in what seems an eternal freeze; Chopin thudding in the background; gray-coated soldiers marching stiff legged like a row of A's; a body laid out like...
...kind of class warfare has broken out between some pricey drug attorneys and their prosecutor peers, who tend to regard such lawyers, honest or dishonest, with indiscriminate contempt. At a recent Florida meeting attended by 200 drug defense lawyers, one attorney denounced harassing prosecutors as "young scumheads." A speaker at the conference, Howard Weitzman, the highly regarded defender of John De Lorean, said that many prosecutors are simply vindictive: "You're driving the Mercedes; they're driving the Chevy Nova. You're everything they want...