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...Anda, a Texas lawyer, has worked on a substantial number of civil rights cases involving racial and ethnic discrimination in his home state. One of the first lawyers in Texas to bring de facto segregation school cases to court, De Anda will discuss his civil rights experience in Texas...
...facto rather than a formal ceasefire has its perils. But because it sets no deadline for the sides to worry over as they work, it may actually help hasten the snail's pace of Middle East negotiations. As one diplomat at the United Nations explained: "We've been spending two weeks on substance and then two weeks on getting another cease-fire...
...Kilby Prison at Montgomery." However, the electric chair was moved to another prison in 1969, and Kilby was torn down. In a 2-to-l decision last week, the appeals judges banned electrocutions until the law is amended-and exempted current death-row inmates from any ex post facto use of the amended law. Result: Alabama's 28 doomed prisoners will escape execution, provided the court lets the ruling stand...
Despite this flagrant de facto violation of Faculty policy on leaves of absence, it is futile to ask the Faculty to pressure a department in order to change a decision that is in the interests of so many of its members. I encourage other members of the University to write the Overseers' Visiting Committee for the Government Department concerning Kissinger's apparently indissoluble link with the Government and this University...
Even without a formal renewal, the cease-fire could continue next month on a de facto basis. This is far from certain, however. The Israelis have intercepted several Egyptian reconnaissance teams in Sinai, and last week four Egyptian Sukhois made two spy sweeps over Israeli lines on the Suez Canal. Earlier, Cairo complained that Israeli jets were making similar recon flights over Egyptian lines. Without a formal ceasefire, a single, accurate burst of antiaircraft fire by either side could swiftly get the hot war started all over again...