Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such efforts at reform may ultimately rebut the militant argument that crime will decrease only if the cops and courts get tougher. Admittedly, fear of dire punishment is often an effective deterrent. So, for that matter, is torture. But the reformers argue that the hope of an orderly society lies...
> On land, Sukarno's infiltrators are effectively exploiting the corrosive ethnic and economic rivalries that divide the Federation's Chinese and Malays. Last week, after bellying through the bush near Sarawak's provincial capital of Kuching, a band of some 40 Indonesians in berets and tennis shoes...
Shark Food. Consequently, many Bahreinis listen approvingly to broadcasts from Cairo and Baghdad denouncing Sheik Isa as a feudalist and a British stooge. Their chief source of resentment is the Sheik's 800-man British-officered police force. When oil workers went on strike last March, the Sheik'...
Debate was scant, since there was virtually unanimous agreement as to the wisdom of having federal jurisdiction over crimes against the President. Minnesota Republican Clark MacGregor reminded the House that FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover told the Warren Commission that if Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been held by the...
Japanese and Korean leftists quickly took to the streets in protest. The ugliest riots took place in Seoul, where crowds rampaged through the streets and gathered under the statue of Yong Hwan Min, a Korean national hero who stabbed himself to death in protest against Japanese aggression in 1905. Seoul...