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WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE. Any approach to a sitting judge by Government officials who have an obvious interest in wanting the Government's case to prevail is wholly improper. If a private citizen made a similar move, he could be prosecuted...
Dull shades of stucco prevail. Balconies are frequent, and the settings for touches of rare color: carefully tended flower boxes. It is a modernism not of the skyscraper but of the piled and scattered, as if--like the baroque boulevards, the bombed-out imperial facades in the East, the shape of the divided city as a whole--the great spaces had been split-up and re-scaled. The most romantic of the architecture--Hans Scharoun's philharmonic hall and Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery (if only the romanticism of plain marble and great steel beams...
...Argentina, much the same situation seems to prevail. Peron is actually moving to the right, relying on his conservative advisers and jettisoning the left-wing support that played such an important role in bringing him back to power...
...honestly cannot see any end to the killing. I only thank God that they are leaving the whites out of it." Elsewhere, the Tutsis and Hutus seem to be living together without trouble-at least for the moment-sharing the same hills and villages. But calm will prevail only as long as there is no effort to change the ages-old system of ubuhake (literally meaning servitude), under which the herd-keeping Tutsis lease their cattle to Hutu farmers for food and pledges of vassalage...
ROTC has no place at this or any other University. "The basic principles of freedom that should prevail at a great university" (to which Bok referred this afternoon) does not include the freedom to commit mass murder, the use to which American armed forces have been put in the past decade. The Vietnamese people have forced the American military out of their country, but the air war, now in its 99th consecutive day, continues in neighboring Cambodia. The butchery has not stopped...