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...country of law and justice and due process. Before we have at least prima-facie proof, let us not voice our suspicions. Our chief of staff told the foreign affairs and defense committee they might have been Jews and they might have been Arabs. It is a fact that Arabs kill Arabs in this country. But I do not exclude other possibilities. I say whoever did it perpetrated a horrible crime. And I do not say that Mr. Shaka'a [mayor of Nablus] is a friend of Israel. He is not. But he is a human being. And nobody...
When police arrested Roberto Sandalo, 26, in Turin last April, they could hardly wait to quiz him about his activities in the terrorist Prima Lima (Front Line) group, a leftist organization second in notoriety only to the Red Brigades. Sandalo's testimony, they hoped, might enable them to catch and indict a few of his revolutionary comrades. It had a vastly greater effect. It threatened to topple the center-left coalition of Christian Democratic Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, one of the most promising governments in Rome in many years. It transformed this week's regional and local elections...
...everyone has begun to listen to Erving. A soaring magician who could seemingly leave the floor at midcourt and glide like a bird of prey to the backboard, he joined the 76ers from the A.B.A. for a record $3.5 million in 1976. But Erving found an overtalented team of prima donnas who were loathe to give him the ball and shunned him off-court as well...
...human life is worth an hour of driving a car," one student wrote. Another called registration "prima facie unconstitutional with a tendency to encourage involvement in brushfire conflicts...
Sheen, who died of heart disease last week at age 84, was American religion's first TV prima donna, complete with studio audience and commercial sponsor. At the peak of his popularity he became the nation's most famous preacher and most celebrated Catholic priest. In that cold war era, Catholicism was far more self-assured than it is now. The six extraordinary TV seasons of "the Microphone of God" made his Church of Rome less threatening to Protestants and Jews in the years just before John F. Kennedy...