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...sibling. And whatever the role played by the PM's 55-year-old brother in a drug deal, the police prosecuted the case without fear or favor, and the law was applied just as the legislature intended. Lester Bird's policy on drug trafficking and money laundering does not cosset criminals but puts them on the run. We hope to drive this menace from our shores. In January, Antigua and several other Caribbean countries began treaty negotiations with the U.S. to strengthen the measures that our countries can take to deter drug trafficking and money laundering. LIONEL A. HURST, Ambassador...
...when he was deserted, as he saw it, by Ingrid Bergman after Spellbound and Notorious and by Grace Kelly after Dial "M" for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. By 1962, when he filmed The Birds, he was treating Actress Tippi Hedren as a doll to dress, cosset and terrorize...
...have worked out that way, since many of the protesters were fiercely determined to find trouble, but at least the notion offered a better chance of avoiding violence. Had Daley been gifted with either humane imagination or a sense of humor, he would have arranged to welcome the demonstrators, cosset them with amenities like portable toilets, as the Government did during the Washington civil rights march of 1963. Instead, Daley virtually invited violence...
...most restive Russians are the intellectuals, who find increasingly unbearable a society in which creativity has been so consistently sacrificed to patriotic duty. For the most part, the regime continues to cosset compliant and unadventurous writers and artists, and to censor and chastise those whose work strays far from the official art form known as "socialist realism." For those who may ever have doubted it, Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva recently gave assurances that the party is not about to reverse its literary policy and publish books that contain "unjust generalizations," such as Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Last week...
...conscientious Congressman would cosset Communists, much less give them handouts of U.S. money. With a roar of pain and surprise Congress learned last week that the Atomic Energy Commission had done just that, in dealing out fellowships for study in advanced physics and other scientific fields...