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Curiously, a number of lawyers outside Israel are less disturbed by these questions-at least on legal grounds. No court, they say, need be concerned with how a defendant is brought before it but only with giving the accused a fair trial. In 1883, a U.S. citizen named Ker was traced to Peru, where he had fled to escape being tried for embezzlement. A U.S. agent kidnaped Ker at gunpoint, brought him back to the U.S., where he was tried and convicted. Peru might conceivably have a grievance against the U.S.. ruled the U.S. Supreme Court, but the defendant...
Death Reported. Ana Rabinsohn Pau-ker, 65, longtime Communist matriarch, who as Foreign Minister ran Red Rumania from 1947 until her downgrading to a minor job in 1952; of cancer; in Bucharest. After joining the Communists in 1921, the Bucharest-born Jewess spent 15 years in and out of Rumania and jail before going to the Soviet Union. In 1945, one year after her return to Rumania, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky visited, noted Mrs. Pauker's power over the incumbent regime, departed purring, "I feel very lighthearted...
...Benz line that it distributes in the U.S., the cars show few mechanical or style changes. Most models are about 2 in. lower, offer a "luxury-level ride" incorporating variable coil springs that automatically adjust to road conditions. One new car: a Packard "Hawk" sports car to match Studeba-ker's Hawk series, with...
...smoked, and joined none of the Tory clubs. He was a maverick in Parliament, campaigning for a Canadian Bill of Rights similar to that in the U.S. Constitution, and calling for stiffer antitrust laws while the Tory Party stood for pure British tradition and unfettered free enterprise. Even Diefenba-ker's Dutch-origin name did not have a Tory ring; the party never had a leader with a non-British surname...
...dedicatory "globalunch," where the dishes included räker (peeled shrimp) from Norway, sur sill (sour herring) from Sweden, and topinambours en daube (stew of Jerusalem artichokes) from France, Chairman Ken Parker preached his gospel that tariffs should be abolished by the U.S. and other nations, and free world trade restored. Said he: "Two-way trade with foreign nations ... is the only really practical way to achieve peace on this earth. Two individuals or two communities or two nations who mutually profit from trading with each other do not tend to quarrel...