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...Games. That brought an urgent telephone call from Uganda Internal Affairs Minister Felix Onama, who said it had all been an unfortunate mistake, demanded his convoy back. Kenyatta was in no mood to play games. After an emergency Cabinet meeting, he delivered a thinly veiled denunciation of both Uganda and Tanzania for "an act of criminal folly and a serious violation of Kenya's territorial integrity." When Uganda Premier Milton Obote telephoned to try to smooth things over, Kenyatta refused to speak to him. When a Tanzania spokesman announced airily that "this has nothing to do with us," Kenyatta...
...ENCLAVES by Felix Bastian. 230 pages. Doubleday. $4.50. If there is something intrinsically funny in the figure of a Hungarian refugee who teaches European history in a New Jersey parochial school for girls and is also a sex fetishist, then this is a funny book. If there isn't, then it is not. The author of this unruly goulash prefers to remain anonymous; Felix Bastian is a nom de plume...
...later found out that the first time I was absent from school, my classmates spent the whole day discussing the difference between the government and the people in a capitalist country, and how they should treat an American friend. The author Felix Greene, a frequent visitor to China, told me of attending a giant anti-U.S. rally in People's Square in Peking. All around him thousands of people were chanting hysterically "Down with American imperialism. Long live the Cuban people's revolution." Yet in his immediate vicinity, many were pushing past each other in their eagerness to shake...
Hotly opposed to incorporation, the late Justice Felix Frankfurter argued that states should be free to experiment with due-process limits that were to be largely defined by the Supreme Court's conscience. Just as hotly, Justice Hugo Black argued that Bill of Rights specifics were more dependable than nine shifting consciences. The court itself has taken a middle course called "absorption." Bit by bit, it has redefined 14th Amendment due process to include more and more of the Bill of Rights...
...drive against the death penalty is gathering new momentum, gaining support from such religious groups as the Methodist Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Ardent in dividual abolitionists have ranged from the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Jack R. Johnson, tough warden of Chicago's Cook County Jail, who says, "The death penalty isn't punishment - it's revenge...