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...shout interruptions or end up in handcuffs, however. In stead, the only disturbances at the mock trial in Manhattan's Felt Forum last week, written by Candy Author Terry Southern, came from rock bands, nostalgic slide shows of the '60s, impersonators of Richard Nixon and Judge Julius Hoffman and a re-enactment of the Chicago riots, complete with imitation tear gas. The most notable presence was that of the man who wasn't there-or was he?-Abbie Hoffman, 41, onetime noisemaker and co-founder of the Yippies, who has been on the lam for over four...
...epididymis, which carries sperm from the testis. In women, inflammation may occur in the cervix or the fallopian tubes (which can become blocked, causing sterility) and other pelvic areas. Even worse, the infection can be passed on to babies during birth, causing eye infections and pneumonia. Says Epidemiologist Julius Schachter of the University of California at San Francisco: "Five percent, at a minimum, of all newborn infants are exposed to these organisms. Forty percent to 50% of all babies passing through an infected cervix acquire chlamydial infection...
Almost as soon as humans learned to write, they were devising ways to keep their messages secret. The Old Testament tells how the Prophet Jeremiah used a code word for Babylon. Julius Caesar often encrypted his messages by substituting letters three places farther on in the alphabet, i.e. D replaces A; E replaces B. But no matter how clever they may have been, the codes of antiquity-or of more recent times-rarely withstood the efforts of skilled code breakers. Mary Queen of Scots was ordered beheaded after Queen Elizabeth's chief spy intercepted and decoded Mary...
Other African countries, notably Nigeria and Tanzania, are also cool to the proposal. They object to the interventionism of former colonial powers, and they argue that any military force should be tied to the Organization of African Unity. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, who has welcomed several of the Carter Administration's previous initiatives on Africa, accused Carter last week of listening to "hysterical voices" in his Government who were exaggerating the current Soviet-Cuban activity on the continent...
...breakaway British colony but Rowland has friends-favored ones-both among the leaders involved in Smith's "internal settlement" and among the Patriotic Front leaders who are fighting them. The industrialist's immediate problem, however, lay in nearby Tanzania, where the socialist government of President Julius Nyerere announced plans to nationalize Lonrho's 18 local affiliates...