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Fighting for the truth has become a risky, lonely mission in strife-torn Indonesia. Since Sukarno's declaration of martial law last March, 17 papers have been padlocked for as long as eleven days at a time on the pretext of maintaining "peace and order." For editorial criticism of the government or even running "unofficial information," eleven editors have been arrested in the past ten months. None have been held as long without trial as Lubis. Embarrassed by his stubborn stand, the government offered to send him out of the country on a "scholarship." Indignantly rejecting the chance...
...effort to reinstill faith in American military might, he listed achievements which prove beyond doubt that today's army is stronger than that which fought in World War II. Unforunately the pretext for Thursday's speech was evidence that Russian armed forces are not only more powerful than ever before but, in rocketry and perhaps other fields, more advanced than...
...Talamas rushed into the streets at 2:30 a.m. to seek a specialist. Police arrested him because he lacked a curfew pass, released him after a few hours. The cops learned that earlier that evening three men appeared outside a gendarmery outpost near Port-au-Prince, and as a pretext to get near said they were seeking a doctor to help a woman in childbirth, then suddenly opened fire, killing four sentries. To the suspicious police, already hysterically fearful of attack by bitter-end partisans of defeated Candidate Déjoie, the similarity of the two stories seemed proof that...
...Armand in his romantic quest, some of his flunkies bait a tender trap. They transform one of his surplus châteaux into a luxury hotel, designate one room as the Chambre d'Amour, to be rented only to beautiful women under the pretext that the owner of the suite is out of town. Armand's role is to enter the Chambre d'Amour in the night, valise in hand, surprising the sleeping beauty and then gallantly offering to spend the night on the neighboring couch. This bedroom farce promptly nets Armand two discontented wives, whom...
...petition for delay by the Little Rock school authorities. Said he, coldly: "The testimony and arguments this morning were, in my judgment, as anemic as the petition itself ... In an organized society there can be nothing but ultimate confusion and chaos if court decrees are flouted, whatever the pretext." His reaffirmed order to Little Rock: integrate...