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Compulsion. A tight, suspenseful film about the heinous crime and court trial of Leopold and Loeb...
...into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted of "heinous crimes...
...with the bulk of the $125 million in credits and development funds promised Garcia during his visit to Washington last June. After four years of Philippine pressure and 2½ years of on-again, off-again negotiations, the status of U.S. military bases in the Philippines remains unsettled. Most heinous of all in Garcia's eyes, Washington had refused to grant him the $100 million he wanted as a stabilization fund for the shaky Philippine peso. (Officially valued at 50?, the peso can be bought almost anywhere in Southeast Asia for a quarter...
...birth-control propaganda, loudspeaker exhortations and traveling exhibits that featured crudely explicit diagrams and extolled the virtues of contraceptive devices, including something called "Healthy Pleasure Honey." All this hue and cry had no appreciable effect on the birth rate. Soon birth-control advocates found themselves accused of the heinous crime of "neo-Malthusianism," and China's teeming manpower became officially no longer a problem but the nation's greatest asset...
Listing charges against the present cheerleaders, the UAC referred to "complaints from students and alumni." But the claims involved are not so heinous that disciplinary actions or warnings could not have solved the problem...