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...week's end the United Nations Special Committee on Hungary demanded assurances that the Hungarian patriots would be tried "under the highest humanitarian standards." Hungary's Chief Public Prosecutor Geza Szenasi gave Hungary's reply. Said he: "After martial law was repealed, some people expected that there would be a lessening of rigor. These expectations are without real foundation. The slogan, 'Let us make peace among us,' is a siren song. Such lukewarmness favors the enemy. Tolerance and understanding will be shown only to those who were misled by our enemies...
...modeled bathing suits for Jantzen, and returned to his home state to become the first Oklahoma draftee called into the Korean war. Four years later an old soda-jerk friend, Producer Paul Gregory, gave Garner a job cueing Lloyd Nolan in the touring company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and he eventually replaced the late John Hodiak in the show. "I didn't register beyond the sixth row," he admits. But later, Garner landed a small part in TV's Cheyenne, and on the strength of it, Warner Bros, signed him to play Marlon Brando...
Fighting for the truth has become a risky, lonely mission in strife-torn Indonesia. Since Sukarno's declaration of martial law last March, 17 papers have been padlocked for as long as eleven days at a time on the pretext of maintaining "peace and order." For editorial criticism of the government or even running "unofficial information," eleven editors have been arrested in the past ten months. None have been held as long without trial as Lubis. Embarrassed by his stubborn stand, the government offered to send him out of the country on a "scholarship." Indignantly rejecting the chance...
Admiral Roscoe F. Good, in charge of Navy forces in Japan, had another view of discipline. After reading the report on conditions at the Sasebo brig, he ordered general courts-martial for Barbuti and a second brig warden, special courts-martial for the other 14 guards...
...known except that he was a Hellenized Phoenician who, thinks Translator Hadas, may have had an admixture of Negro blood. There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians. Today, nearly 1,700 years after his death, both messages have relevance, but the Ethiopica will mostly be read now, as it always has been, as a rattling good adventure story...