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...also one of the aspects of the Cultural Revolution. They already have cause to be concerned. Last week a sullen crowd of Chinese hauled two French residents of Peking off to the local militia station after they aimed their cameras at women shoveling snow. The Frenchmen had been mistaken for "Soviet spies," police explained after releasing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chairman Mao's New Revolution | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...mistaken if you think that any of our armaments in Cuba are offensive. However, let us not argue at this point, Evidently, I shall not be able to convince...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: JFK Library Documents Illuminate Brinksmanship | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

...Professor Hans-Lukas Teuber is mistaken in thinking that those who fear a future full of "mind control" are expressing their mistrust of science or scientific knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1974 | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...Englishman who met Casement in Chicago, during an American tour to raise funds against Britain described him as "a fanatic of the type of Mazzini ... great in the beginning of Italy's risorgimento, and so greatly mistaken in the end." His Irish American host in New York said flatly that Sir Roger had become "mentally unbalanced." Cracked or not, Casement was confident that a victorious Germany would benignly liberate Ireland. He made his way to Berlin, where he soon found that the German government consisted of "swine and cads." His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imparfit Gentil Knight | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

Geraway, who also claims to be a victim of mistaken identity, wrote to Duke, but his letter was read by tired eyes. "When I finished the Miller case," Duke recalls, "I said I would never get involved in anything like it again. I worked an average of 30 hours a week on that one." He and Geraway did begin a correspondence, however, and a year later, when Geraway wrote that he had "held on to rationality as long as I could," Duke visited him at Walpole. Once he read the trial transcript, Duke was hooked. "I wish the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Rescuer in Red Velvet | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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