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...business as usual in Illinois. All week long, the Democratic office seekers trooped to the specially reserved rooms in Chicago's Sherman House hotel or in the St. Nicholas in downstate Springfield to pledge fealty and plead for places on the party slate. Finally, the state's dozen or so top Democrats gathered, as they always do, in the smallish Sherman House office of the Cook County chairman, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Last week, almost four months before the state primary, King Richard's court announced the Democratic nominees...
...Iceland. He said that the Government had reached a verbal agreement with Iceland at that nation's request. By 1963, the Icelandic government accepted two married black servicemen into the country, and the number has now increased to about 40. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird could only plead that he had no control over previous administrations and that no such understandings now exist...
When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi returned home from her three-week tour of Western nations last week, one of the first things she did was to go before her hawkish Parliament and plead for patience toward her handling of the crisis with Pakistan. The urgent need for a solution was all too apparent. Officials in New Delhi said that the biggest frontier battle yet between Indians and Pakistanis occurred when 2,800 Pakistani regulars crossed the border into West Bengal. Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram rose in Parliament to say that if India was attacked, it would "carry the war into...
...clash with Pakistan over Kashmir. During the past three weeks, moreover, India has built up its forces along its borders with both Pakistan and China. Whatever misgivings Indira had about leaving at such a critical moment were plainly outweighed by the belief that the time had come to plead India's case with other world leaders. Indeed, her departure itself, signaling that New Delhi apparently did not believe war to he imminent, served in some measure to alleviate the tensions that have reached fever pitch recently due to military buildups by both Islamabad and New Delhi...
...than 5,000 cases to dispose of and the time limit now has run out for all those who were awaiting trial when the new rules went into effect. Right up to the deadline, prosecutors and judges were engaging in a frantic binge of plea bargaining-allowing defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges to avoid the time and expense of trials. There simply was no way to try everyone. Overcrowded Florida court calendars may now be a problem of the past. Still, the state's confusion-ridden changeover should serve as a warning to other states facing...