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...provinces, the guerrillas have significant control in 22, operate widely in all the others. In their "liberated zones," the Reds fly the yellow-starred Viet Cong flag, collect taxes from local peasants. Near Tanan, south of Saigon, the local Red tax chief is a woman, Kim Luom; when peasants plead that they have nothing with which to pay, she lays her .45 on the table saying: "Don't talk to me; talk...
...worshipful brother Raul. Nevertheless, when Fidel and Raul went into the Sierra Maestra, most of the family rallied to their cause, sending food and supplies, raising money, going up in the hills to help organize his guerrilla camps. In 1958 Juanita, then 24, even traveled to the U.S., to plead for funds...
...Bring Your Skillets." Last week, in the Tarrant County courtroom in Fort Worth, the general and the 22-year-old cub met again. Walker was there to plead his $2,000,000 libel suit, in which he claimed that the Associated Press had, in effect, charged him with helping to incite the insurrection at Ole Miss. Walker had that very charge leveled against him by the U.S. Government, and he had also been subjected to a psychiatric examination. But doctors found him sane, and a federal grand jury refused to return an indictment...
Lumbard. "The judge usually picks out some lawyer who happens to be in the courtroom," typically a novice just admitted to practice. "After a few minutes of conference, the defendant is advised to plead guilty, and he feels he has no choice but to do so. Everyone who participates in these proceedings knows that this is a farce...
...nail a violator of these laws requires proof of willfulness. And those who cry "Jump!" might try to plead that it was all a joke. "But this is a serious business," warns a top New York prosecutor, "and the laws are tehre to be used...