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...when one was delivered to her by hand. Since then Tate, a retired rear admiral living in Orange Park, Fla., has been corresponding with his lost family. In a recent letter to Zoya he wrote, "I loved you then, and I still love you. We have done no harm to anyone, only loved each other. Why should we be the subject of malice from a powerful political organization or government? And certainly there can be no onus on Victoria, the innocent child of our union." Since Tate, now 77, underwent open-heart surgery in 1973, father and daughter have been...
...present proposal for meatless days places a referendum on the issue after spring break, but why wait till then? Could not a referendum be held during the of February 3, before meatless days are instituted? What harm could come of a referendum held before the policy is effected? Holding a referendum after the fact is tantamount to a dictatorship for the months prior to that vote. Since CHUL obviously agrees that the matter merits, some sort of referendum, there can be no other explanation for its action than that it hopes undergraduates will be hulled into a state of complacency...
...recent months. Significantly, there was general Arab disapproval of the actions of three guerrillas who first attempted to attack an Israeli airliner at Paris' Orly Airport and then wounded some 20 people in a running battle with French police. "We cannot condone such acts, which only harm French and Palestinian people," said Arafat. The Iraqi government allowed the guerrillas to land at Baghdad in a French airliner that had flown them from Orly, but then arrested them. Either Iraq or the Palestine Liberation Organization may punish the men. Such threats have been made in the past after similar incidents...
...expended considerable effort proving, say, that a policeman who had extorted payments from a tavern owner had used fear of violence or harassment to force his victim to pay. The appeals court bought Thompson's argument that the law did not deal only with fear of physical harm, but could be interpreted as covering threatened economic damage as well. Another decision held that merely obtaining money improperly under "color of official right" was enough to establish extortion. With those decisions, the standard defense that the questionable deal had been a friendly, voluntary arrangement all but vanished...
...Scout, George belonged to the elite Order of the Arrow. At Yale, it was Bones and the Daily News. There was also a year at Oxford, where he met and married Irene Trewin, daughter of Lord and Lady Trewin. A stint at TIME-LIFE did no harm either...