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...night before my announcement a dream came to me that the Asian problem was becoming extremely explosive, and that God was directing me to act immediately to save the situation." Thus last week Uganda's mercurial President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, explained his draconian edict: some 60,000 Asians-principally those from the Indian subcontinent who hold British passports-must quit the country within 90 days...
Richard Speck, 30, who methodically slaughtered eight student nurses in a Chicago dormitory in 1966, is just as methodically raising birds. Still confined to death row despite the Supreme Court's edict against capital punishment, Speck has been nicknamed "the Birdman" by his fellow prisoners-a reference to the 1962 Burt Lancaster movie, Birdman of Alcatraz. "I haven't raised any fuss about the birds," said Stateville Assistant Warden George Stampar. "Two sparrows flew into his cell and he's attached to them. I understand he even shampoos them...
...commend the Pan-African Liberation Committee for forcefully bringing this issue to the community; we assume that since no edict of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities has been violated, there will be no punishment; and we welcome the return of activist student involvement in the life of the University...
When the school transfer was ordered, Nephew, an IBM programmer, and some friends asked the pastor of St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church for help. Father Leonard Burke organized the parents of about 200 children, most of whom continued to attend Fifield in defiance of the edict; school officials allowed them in the classrooms, though the children were not registered for credit. Picket lines were set up around the homes of school committeemen who had voted for the busing plan...
...ECAC voted last spring to permit freshmen participation in varsity hockey for the first time. Ivy League rules, however, prohibit Ivy schools from following the ECAC edict...