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...Miami, it took three weeks to impanel jurors in the trial of four blacks accused of beating three whites to death during last year's rioting, and the pressure was so great that one prospective juror suffered a respiratory seizure. The chosen jury was sequestered in a motel, forbidden to have television or telephones, constantly watched by three police officers. "We walked around like little soldiers," recalls Foreman Dale Dollar, 25, a black who works for Florida Power & Light Co. "It felt like the jury was on trial...
According to Dr. Boland, multiple concussions can cause permanent damage to the brain, and in almost every case of this severity, the athlete is forbidden to play. "They come here to strengthen their brains, not destroy them," he said...
Males could increasingly be seen in flowing robes called gallabiya-that is, until the robes were forbidden by President Sadat last week. Devout young Muslims also favor trim beards, which some men were hastily shaving to escape detection in the roundup of religious dissidents. By adopting these modes of traditional attire, young Egyptians are manifesting a new Islamic fervor that is symptomatic of the opposition to Sadat's secular, pro-Western regime...
...gradually the violent protests began to die down, as the sixties merged into the seventies, and the generation gap began to narrow. In the interest of self-preservation, the rock songwriters softened their blows against people over thirty as they found themselves approaching and finally crossing that once forbidden barrier...
...quote Prime Minister Begin as having said in parliament of his colleague and leader of the opposition, Shimon Peres, "The gentleman is a liar; the gentleman is a liar." The Prime Minister never uttered such words. What the Prime Minister said was: "In the British Parliament it is forbidden to say, 'The right honorable gentleman is a liar.' It is also unparliamentary to say, 'The right honorable gentleman is lying!' It is, however, acceptable to say, 'The right honorable gentleman told a lie!' This, however, sounds equally not nice, and it was Winston Churchill...