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Peace Forum: On July 31 Barbara Court of the Friends of the Filippino People will present a new slide show depicting the critical situation which exists under martial law in the Philippines. The slide show, sponsored by Arlington Peace Action Committee, shows how the United States supports the Marcos dictatorship as well as portrays the development of opposition to the Marcos regime. The program will be held at the Edith Fox library, corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Cleveland St., Arlington, at 8:00 p.m. Attend and learn more about how our taxes are used in support of the Marcos dictatorship...
...latest, known as the "death decree," threatens political demonstrators with trial by courts-martial and execution by a firing squad...
...Sebastian, body pierced with arrows. Years later, with typically gorgeous effrontery, he posed for a photo in which he himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action. Or he lived it some of the time. He played other roles as well...
...SUCCESSION: There are actually two political testaments. There is the martial-law political testament and the constitutional political testament. I'll be frank with you: more than one person would be caretaker. They have been agreed upon by the leaders, military as well as civilian. Actually, we have a number of options under the constitution. If we shift to a parliamentary form of government and I assume the position of Prime Minister, I could also designate a Deputy Prime Minister, who would immediately take over. Then, of course, an election is another alternative...
...common agreement, the finest throwing arm in the history of the U.S. Military Academy belongs to Omar Nelson Bradley, Class of '15. After a distinguished career as outfielder for the West Point baseball team, Bradley went on to make a succession of spectacular martial catches: commander of the Twelfth Army in World War II, postwar Veterans Administrator, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, at 81, the only living five-star General of the Army. Bradley returned last week to the ivied walls on the Hudson for the dedication of the Omar N. Bradley Library, which will...