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...Vern Countryman, vice chairman of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL), and Thomas I. Emerson, a Yale law professor and a member of the NCARL, issued a joint statement in June opposing the bill...
...Countryman said yesterday the bill contains too many chapters, sections and clauses that would have to be revised and should be voted down. "This bill is worse than the Federal Criminal Code now on the books," he said...
...bill is a product of the Nixon Administration, prepared under the aegis of Attorneys General Mitchell and [Richard] Kleindienst. The objective of the draftsmen," Countryman said, "was to restrict individual liberties in order to preserve the secrecy of the Nixon Administration's corrupt policies...
Bayi is not the first East African to run into the record books. Kenyan Kip Keino won the 1,500-meter gold medal in the 1968 Olympics, Fellow Countryman Ben Jipcho is history's second fastest miler, and Ugandan John Akii-bua holds the world record in the 400-meter hurdles. Now a veritable army of runners from East Africa is readying for the Montreal Olympics next year...
...political ally of Premier U Nu, who was overthrown in a 1962 coup by President Ne Win, the current regime was trying to inter him with a minimum of fanfare. But the city's volatile students, who apparently wanted a more imposing burial site for their distinguished countryman, abducted the body on the way to the mausoleum. Along with antigovernment Buddhist monks, they paraded it through Rangoon's crowded streets to the university, where a special mausoleum had been hastily constructed...