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...Marien S. Evans said the defense's motions for dismissal in the Suffolk County Superior Court case will most likely be heard in mid-summer...
...Marien repeatedly stressed that the outcome "will depend on the confidence and the coolness of our fencers." He added the Crimson should win because "we are stronger...
...Before a country can be Communist," said one West European diplomat, "its government has got to have a strong grip on the people and the economy. The Brazzaville government has hardly any grip at all." Since 1968, when an army coup led by Captain Marien Ngouabi overthrew the leftist government of President Alphonse Massamba-Debat, the regime has been rocked by two major Cabinet shakeups and at least two attempted coups. It has also tried at least 18 former high officials on charges of treason...
...coup was triggered by the arrest of French-trained Captain Marien Ngouabi, a popular paratroop leader whom the President suspected of being in league with the extreme left. Freed quickly by his own troops, Ngouabi-ambitious and opportunist perhaps, but not a Maoist-threw the President out. Then he discovered that he and his fellow officers, divided by tribal jealousies, could not agree on who should take over. The coup makers, hailing from tribes in the north and the west, quickly came to realize that the only man with any control over the powerful Bakongo tribe of the south...
Rejecting Dualism. Moreover, theologians concede that modern skepticism about eternity is fully justified. Says the University of San Francisco's Jesuit Philosopher Francis J. Marien: "An afterlife that is viewed as an opiate, a kind of workmen's compensation for an ugly and painful existence, is bound to be unattractive." Stanford University's Protestant Dean of the Chapel B. Davie Napier believes that God and man are cheapened by the idea that good behavior can buy "a good berth in the afterlife." As for hell, Napier shares the growing consensus that perdition cannot be permanent. To condemn...