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Fisher got involved because he met a man at a party four years ago. The man was Jeremiah Gumbs, a New Jersey businessman born on Anguilla. When Anguilla achieved its de facto independence, in May of this year, Gumbs was asked to seek out an international lawyer and, realizing he had met one, contacted Fisher, at Harvard Law School where he teaches...
...military landing by British Marines and a peacekeeping force of Carribean powers. But last-minute negotiations and a fear of real bloodshed prevented such a landing. In any case, St. Kitts has been shown incapable or unwilling to attempt Anguilla's recapture, and the prospects for de facto independence, with the kind of assistance Anguilla now requires, are apparently improving...
...which wouldn't be the case if Mrs. Hicks were to move into Boston's handsome old City Hall. (The elaborately expensive but heroically handsome new City Hall in Scollay Square won't be ready for the January, 1968, inaugural.) Aside from the ramifications of her stand on de facto segregation, the opening of old Boston wounds and divisions--just now healing--would have been one of the saddest aspects of Mrs. Hicks' election as Mayor. Under Mayors John B. Hynes (1950-1959) and John F. Collins (1960-1968) the split between the city government and Boston's Establishment healed...
...looked on, a radical, passionate few judged and punished Mr. Leavitt in an ironic perversion of free speech and due process. At Lowell Hall last Monday, less than ten per cent of the University population, representing only themselves, demanded the so-called "right of collective responsibility." This ex post facto support for the Mallinckrodt demonstrators is a cheap attempt to blackmail the administration and absolve the guilty students...
...effect, the change has hardly been visible because in most Yale colleges dress rules have not been enforced for several years. "It's a de facto, rather than a de jure, decision," said one Yale student...