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...independence movement. India clapped Sheik Abdullah into jail in 1953 and introduced a series of repressive measures to halt other nationalist or pro-Pakistan movements. Except for three months in 1958, Sheik Abdullah has languished in prison ever since, was last week on trial on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government...
...Black Bag, which is praise for wonder drugs to come. In High Barbary, Lawrence Durrell satirizes the British Foreign Office, whose delicate young men cannot get a tolerable haircut outside one special shop in London. Freedom, by Mack Reynolds, is a blameless political sermon predicting that the Russians will overthrow Communism because they value intellectual liberty above a high standard of living. Only about half a dozen items show the sciencebased imagination that is the accepted mark of true science fiction. George P. Elliott's Among the Bangs is a humorous and reasonable extrapolation of field anthropology. A Planet...
Jails were filled to overflowing with political enemies when Marcos Pérez Jiménez was boss in Venezuela. Last week the chubby little (5 ft. 4 in.) dictator, who has been living a life of ease in Miami Beach since his overthrow in 1958, got a faint idea of how it feels to be on the inside looking out. He was behind bars in Cell No. 505 in Miami's Dade County jail, though Florida justice does not include the exercises in torture that Jiménez' prisons...
...professor characterized the Smith Act as being "somewhat better" than the Subversive Activities Control Act. In his opinion, however, "All you need is a statute making it a crime to overthrow the government. We've had that since the Civil...
...colleges to withdraw from the program in 1959 in protest of a recently repealed provision requiring an applicant to file an affidavit that "he does not believe in, he is not a member of, and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government...