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...most enterprising organizers of the radical movement. Dellinger and Davis are under indictment on charges of conspiracy to incite a riot during last August's Democratic Convention. With less than five hours left before his plane's departure, Davis managed to obtain a Federal Court of Appeals ruling permitting him to leave the country. Three days later, the peace delegation, along with three cameramen from an underground moviemaking group, The Newsreel, landed in Hanoi...
...patients to him, he achieves a cozy sense of equality. If he knows the other physician socially, so much the better. If he has to be hospitalized, he shuns strange institutions where he would be just another patient and addressed as "Mr." rather than "Dr." He tries hard to obtain admission to his own hospital...
...possible for me to meet any Soviet officials or to offer them my hand, it will not be before the U.S.S.R. grants complete freedom to Czechoslovakia and withdraws its troops from there forever. I wish to apologize for the deception to which I had to resort in order to obtain permission to leave Russia. It was a deception forced on me. You have yourselves created the conditions in which it is impossible even to go abroad without trickery...
...visitor wished to speak with him in the hall. There Foreman was confronted by Melvin Powers, the hulking drifter whom he had successfully defended along with Candy Mossier, 49, in the celebrated 1964 murder of Multimillionaire Jacques Mossier. Powers, 27, was incensed over Foreman's suit to obtain legal fees involving several hundred thousand dollars from Powers' Aunt Candy. "Look you bastard, I'm mean," raged Powers, gesturing threateningly. "I'm tough too," replied the husky lawyer. Then, as onlookers gaped, Powers went on: "Don't forget. I've already killed...
...There is a limit to the amount of money an individual can obtain from renting housing, but it is fairly high. The fact that the government allows this is evidence of its willingness to accommodate as many groups as possible--at least, in the short run. However, large property owners and shopkeepers were eliminated; one night they nationalized something like 550 bars in Havana alone...