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...will be clear for the legislature to pick a new head of state. Because Parliament's official chamber had been sacked during the fighting and is still not secure, the deputies met in a villa, near the Beirut race track, that was supposed to be on neutral ground. The site turned out to be the scene of some of the week's bloodiest clashes...
...months he had been studiously neutral and quietly hoping, but last week Hubert Humphrey started making some moves to help his own chances in the Democratic race. TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian traveled with Humphrey and sent this report...
...shape of that emerging new regime presents potential dangers for peace in the Middle East. A Lebanon in which Moslems have a predominant influence in politics may gradually evolve into an Arab socialist state, and perhaps into a confrontation power as well. (Lebanon remained neutral during the last three Arab-Israeli wars.) Israel may have to worry much more about its 49-mile-long border with Lebanon. The establishment of Moslem rule in Lebanon may be a notable triumph for the Palestinians. The fedayeen initially tried to stay out of the political strife, later tried to police it, and finally...
...those states were arguing last week that the new "mandatory" laws operated in the same unconstitutionally "capricious" way that earlier laws had. Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam, who has led the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund's long war against executions, contended that even if the new laws require neutral enforcement of the death penalty there is inevitably "play" in the system. Prosecutors, for example, can always decide against bringing a capital charge and juries can convict for a lesser offense. This "elaborate winnowing process," said Amsterdam, means that only an arbitrarily selected few are sentenced to death...
...Powers denies Holcombe's grievances, the union can appeal to a neutral arbiter as a last resort...