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Most "love-a-ly" of all to devotees and onlookers of the British-born pastime, the sixth annual Ivy League Rugby Tournament at Providence over the weekend found itself a fitting, overflowingly generous sponsor--Tuborg Breweries. There were good quantities of blood and sweat, but mostly there was beer...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: View From the Attic | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

UNLIKE Siphan who had only recently arrived in Paris, the Provisional Revolutionary Government's press attache Ly Van Sau was an old hand. His manner was assertive, and he had an incredible capacity to discuss a problem thoroughly and succinctly without missing any details. As we sat in exquisitely upholstered lounge chairs at the PRG's Information Office on the second floor of an old mansion in the posh section of Paris near the Arch of Triumph and the Eiffel Tower, I scarcely realized that I was talking to the representative of a government which had fought a long, dirty...

Author: By James D. Blum, | Title: The Thieu Regime-Great Expectations | 11/16/1973 | See Source »

After discussing the prisoner issue, Ly Van Sau said that the Thieu regime could not maintain its political prisoners without $50 million of U.S. aid annually. Pointing his finger at me, Sau said emphatically that it was the duty of American taxpayers to put pressure on Nixon to stop the aid. The thought occurred that Thieu might let the prisoners starve to death if the United States stopped its aid, but I kept my thoughts to myself...

Author: By James D. Blum, | Title: The Thieu Regime-Great Expectations | 11/16/1973 | See Source »

...supposed to be the repository of a society's ethics and morals. It is of course also slavishly technical, extravagantly complex and simultaneously too precise and not precise enough. But its very imperfection is why it has need of lawyers constant ly to nurture its growth and to correct its sometimes unjust ways. Legal groups may need to devise new guidelines that somehow strike a better balance between the roles of counselor and advocate. But the chief difficulty is find ing and restoring to the profession its sense of duty to the continuing experiment of law. Some slight satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: An Awful Lot of Lawyers Involved | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...HOME and WE WONT FORGIVE THE GERMAN MURDERS. The mood of the Israeli people as a whole seemed much less strident. A poll taken just before Brandt's arrival showed 66% in favor of the visit, and in Jerusalem he was greeted by friendly crowds chanting "Wil-ly, Wil-ly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Starting Anew | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

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