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...Your cover on the occasion of Lenin's anniversary is an unpardonable sacrilege. Your utilization of such a flagrant artistic mediocrity to defame the memory of the George Washington of millions of people throughout the world is a sad comment on your own lack of fairness, objectivity and cultural comprehension...
...Clothed in self-righteousness, the "liberal" deplores intensified demonstrations as "civil wrongs," contending that such activity precludes the enactment of meaningful legislation. Such a patronizing posture blithely ignores the realities of the issue. The majority of such demonstrations are protests against flagrant injustice. It is inevitable that continued frustration of responsible Negro leadership can only result in less temperate demonstrations in the face of intolerable grievances...
...intolerable," cried Castro. "If what they want is to provoke a war, they are going to have it - cost what it may. Let us prepare our surface-to-air missiles." In a diplomatic note delivered through the Swiss embassy in Havana, the Cubans formally warned the U.S. against "flagrant violations of na tional sovereignty." Another bellicose note to the U.N. said much the same thing...
...questions. Can a judge stifle press comment on a case simply by deferring the sentence? Should a judge who is offended by press comments be permitted to try the offender? Most newsmen thought not. The Portales, N. Mex., News-Tribune called Harrison's sentence "one of the most flagrant examples of judicial stupidity that has come to the attention of New Mexicans in years. It poses a threat not only to a free press but to the public's right to criticize the judiciary." The New Mexico Press Association chimed in with an offer to aid Harri...
...been able to discount any likelihood of a coup by Brazil's studiously constitution-minded armed forces. But even the military has given him fair warning. Last month 73 retired "pajama generals," with 2,800 years of service among them, issued a manifesto labeling Goulart a "flagrant transgressor of the law," charged that under him "subversion is not only officially tolerated, but desired, directed and aided." The generals concluded grimly that the armed forces "are not obliged to preserve or guarantee the government...