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HARVARD-UMASS--This is year three for Resticball. Still no results. Stoeckel will excel but Harvard hasn't enough to deter Pennington and friends. UMass 14, Harvard...
Hopefully, fear of being discovered by this investigating apparatus would deter would-be conspirators from illegal actions. Hopefully, this Court would never have to be called in to "find facts" about another election scandal--no matter how big or small. But since there may be those who fail to learn from the gross mistakes of others, we should eliminate the possibility of being caught with our pants down a second time...
...making plans behind the scenes. A legal adviser of the Israeli Foreign Ministry flew to Oslo as part of an attempt to gain release of the captured agents. Even though Norway has very friendly relations with Israel, it may be inclined to punish the agents severely in order to deter further terrorism. The murder was obviously an error, but that is small solace for Ahmed Bouchiki and other innocents who are bound to suffer in the worldwide underground warfare between the Israelis and the Arabs...
...Robinson ("Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?") and did smashingly well at the box-office. In 1931, Public Enemy followed suit with James Cagney as Tom Powers, a punk kid who becomes a tough-guy criminal. These movies were stories about gangsters' lives. They professed to deter crime by warning the public about violence in the streets, but managed instead to glamourize the gangster as a rebel hero. It was because of the brilliant acting of the likes of Robinson and Cagney, who gave their hoodlums dignity and poignance, that we believed in these gangsters as real...
...poor view does not deter the crowds. For there is a magnetic attraction about the investigation that draws people back time and time again to witness the controlled violence of the Watergate hearings...