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Still, the deed was done. Was it justified? Mecklin thinks not. "A coup d'etat in such circumstances," he writes, "was desperate surgery. The odds against success were comparable with, say, a kidney transplant." And indeed the graft didn't take. Diem's successors proved unable to halt the "relentless deterioration, confirming in dreary succession all the black predictions of those who had opposed the coup...
Confronted with a virtual coup d'etat last month, the HDC membership responded as expected. When five undergraduates announced their self-appointment as a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee that would select all mainstage plays, it was a new version of the old nightmare. Faculty influence was suspected: "Chapman and Hamlin are probably behind this, you know;" "The committee will be a pawn of the Faculty within a few years...
...etat, c'est Charles...
...that animals die facing Mecca, but they have learned that it is an unpardonable sin to install a toilet facing in that direction. Moslem hospitals must be designed so that men and women can be strictly separated at all times. Projects are often delayed by revolutions, coups d'etat, bureaucracy and corruption. In Africa, the architects have had to abandon some carefully selected building sites at the last minute. Reason: local witch doctors considered them "bad juju...
...most famed case in France reached the courts fortnight ago. Last March, Judge André Heilbronner, a member of the Conseil d'Etat, which is roughly equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, was dragged from his Citroën by Electrician Jean Le Bihan and beaten unmercifully. Le Bihan's wife joined in with the high heel of one of her shoes. When arrested, Le Bihan claimed that the judge's car had cut him off. In an effort to impress Frenchmen with the need to end such violence, Le Bihan was given ten months in jail...