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...officers enjoy the right to negotiate as a union and to take strike action (though they have never done so). Stockholm's morning newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, published a wry cartoon showing a large billboard inscribed with what it called a message from the Minister of Defense: "It is forbidden to engage in war against Sweden during the lockout." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sven Andersson assured critics that key men in defense posts would be exempt from the lockout...
...ditties; of cancer; in Miami Beach. "I love children. I also love music," Miss Barth once said. "But since I couldn't read music, I couldn't teach it to children. So I thought I'd teach grown-ups a thing or two." Her fondness for forbidden words kept her in and out of courts on obscenity charges but did nothing to hurt her recordings, which sold in the millions and earned her the sobriquet "the female Lenny Bruce...
...36th week, had already pronounced the guilt of Manson, Atkins and two other Manson followers, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten. Now, under California law, a second trial is under way to determine the penalty. While the jury still will not hear a formal defense of insanity-Manson has forbidden it-the panel cannot escape the implications of the women's behavior and their words...
...evangelicals, of course, communicating the Gospel is still the core of the missionary effort. They take the injunction to preach literally. Dozens of high-powered transmitters operated by various evangelical groups now permit Protestant radio to cover the world with round-the-clock broadcasts, including areas where missionaries are forbidden. California-based Wycliffe Bible Translators carry the command to imaginative lengths. They train in a test "village" of primitive huts in the jungles of Mexico, then are sent to live unaided in the Latin American bush for six weeks. In order to get the Bible to many primitive peoples, they...
Muscat and Oman had only six miles of paved roadway, and the Sultan's red 1955 Chrysler Imperial rusted in the palace courtyard for lack of any place to go. Music and dancing were forbidden and women were compelled to wear mid-calf skirts despite summer temperatures of 130° F. Electricity and running water were unknown to most people. The xenophobic Said permitted few foreigners in and fewer Omanis out, but an estimated 200,000 subjects managed to flee during the past ten years. Cannons sounded curfew after sundown. With only three schools in the entire sultanate...