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...crime: taking Iraq into the Baghdad Pact. Cried the prosecutor: "God ordained that we should have one head left out of those destroyed at the hands of the people. God be praised for these blessed hours in which the enemy of the people stands in the prisoner's dock before the People's Court...
...tremble at the thought (or should); Judgment Day is "that day of wrath, that dreadful day." But the psalmists looked forward to it joyfully. The reason for the difference, says Lewis, is that "the Christian pictures the case to be tried as a criminal case with himself in the dock; the Jew pictures it as a civil case with himself as the plaintiff. The one hopes for acquittal, or rather for pardon; the other hopes for a resounding triumph with heavy damages...
Dreams & Delusions. In Washington and London this turn of events evoked cries of enthusiasm. After all, only a month before, both nations had been worried about standing in the dock for dispatching troops to the Middle East. The British had further cause for jubilation. If Dag Hammarskjold-who promptly announced that he would leave for the Middle East this week-could carry out his intention of persuading Jordan's King Hussein to accept "anything, from one individual to a substantial U.N. group," the way would be paved for a withdrawal of the British paratroopers hemmed in on Amman airfield...
...drivers at the station. Our drivers were supposed to go in pairs. That's what I told them to do for protection. They waited until one of our men was in the warehouse. The other was getting in his truck to move the truck over to the dock. Kierdorf's Cadillac pulled up behind the driver just getting in the truck, and four fellows jumped out, beat him over the head with a pipe, beat him to the ground. Twenty-two stitches. The railroad men were up above, and as the Cadillac turned around to leave, they...
...rapidly. Many of the student rioters were Roman Catholics (Kerala has the largest Christian population of any state in India) determined to fight Communist encroachment in the schools. Following a call for a statewide hartal, or general strike, by the Congress Party and their Socialist allies, some 10,000 dock workers left their jobs in the port of Cochin. Bazaars and factories throughout the state closed for a day. Students stayed away from school. Strikes, demonstrations and picketing erup.ted in town after town. The harried Communists, who had so often employed these same tactics themselves, seemed at a loss...