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...necessary support for a larger force. Political will right now from the E.U. would change the entire situation, making it easier to bring Russia, China and some Muslim countries on board. Surely the E.U. can agree at least about Darfur. The citizens of its member states do. John Pedler Sarlat, France Thailand's Military Takeover The past five years under the democratically elected government of Thaksin Shinawatra were a nightmare [Oct. 2]. He was a tyrant in disguise. He bought votes to pave his way to power. He and his Cabinet members destroyed the system's checks and balances, abused...
...Alan E. Pedler, post-doctoral Fellow in Chemistry, Edwin F. Taylor 2G, and Faith Young '58 will demonstrate change-bell ringing in the New England Guild of Hand-Bell Ringers' concert. Saturday at 3 p.m. In change-ringing, each ringer handles two bells, one of a time: the bells are rung in definite sequences called changes. "Very unusual to one who has never heard it before" Taylor said...
...from Guilford have been told that Reinhart was the name of soup served in the dining halls and that when students were hungry they would shout Reinhart. Another, who must believe that hardware stores sell red lamp oil and vanishing points, was told that Reinhart was an old German pedler from whom the boys used to buy cigarettes and candy. He was really an unpopular boy who never had anyone shout outside his window for him, so he used to go out and call up to his empty room, until he was discovered...
Three weeks later Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish-pedler, and Nicola Sacco, factory worker, were arrested as suspicious characters. They were radicals, and in 1920 the U. S. Government was a militant radical- hunter. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts found them guilty of the Braintree murders, sentenced them to death, despite numerous witnesses who said that they had bought eels and fish from Mr. Vanzetti in North Plymouth at the hour of the crime, despite the Italian consul at Boston who swore that Mr. Sacco had come to him to procure a passport to Italy on that April morning...
...What two Italians (fish pedler and factory worker) have caused an "international episode...