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After two days the committee put up the money for the $25,000 bond and the police freed Hines. Mims later regretted that most of the committee membership is black: "It should not have a color line--this is not a black and white issue, it's an issue of human rights. Calling it black or white polarizes the community. The community should be together on this," he said...
...London, Scotland Yard detectives nabbed Astrid Proll, 31, wanted for taking part in the 1970 attack that freed Terrorist Andreas Baader. Scheduled to stand trial on attempted murder and bank robbery charges with others in the Baader-Meinhof gang, Proll had been released from custody for medical reasons and had jumped bail. When arrested, she was working at a government-sponsored vocational training school...
...hopeful sign that in recent months the Shah has begun to make visible reforms in the political and human rights affairs of the nation. He fired the head of SAVAK, who had been identified with that agency's most notorious terror tactics, freed a number of prisoners, and promised to allow dissidents to be tried in civilian rather than military courts. But some specialists in the region blame those small liberalizing measures for the present turmoil. Says one: "Many Iranians took these changes as a sign that the Shah was weakening and responded with almost total cynicism...
...published a volume of twelve visionary buildings that dramatized his spaces by the diagonal perspectives of stage design. But his work created no stir, and he was forced to return to Venice, where the presiding geniuses at the time were Tiepolo, Canaletto and Guardi. The influence of Tiepolo freed Piranesi's line from cramped meticulousness favored by architectural engravers of the day. The result can be clearly seen in the Morgan show, where sketches for decorative panels and figure studies echo Tiepolo's and Guardi's free draftsmanship...
...were concerned about the principle whether patients have a right to be freed from scurrilous literature," Rabkin says. He adds the pamphlets were "not only untrue, but irresponsible literature--unlike the unions, we can only say what is true during a union campaign." Rabkin and the hospital's lawyer, Robert Chandler, argue that the NLRB was outside its area of expertise in trying to rule on whether or not patients would suffer adverse health effects from reading literature criticizing the hospital...