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INDIA Growing Tensions As the train puffed out of tiny Jaun-pur, southeast of New Delhi, Deendayal Upadhyaya waved cheerily to his supporters. A few hours later, some 40 miles from Jaunpur, the 50-year-old president of India's second largest political party - the Jana Sangh - was found dead by the side of the tracks, with a crushed skull and fractures of eight ribs, an ankle and an arm. Authorities said that Upadhyaya may have fallen from the train, but the Jana Sangh party called his death "a politically motivated, cold-blooded murder...
...from ice floe to ice floe, not stopping until, "as in a dream," she had left Kentucky behind and found herself safe on the Ohio side of the Ohio River. Contrary to the myth ic and dramatic versions of folklore, Harriet Beecher Stowe's heroine was not actually pur sued by bloodhounds...
...maze - done by students at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College un der the direction and guidance of Sister Mary Corita Kent, 49 - is the latest project of the nation's best-known teaching nun. Sister Corita's own vibrant silk-screen serigraphs have been pur chased by leading museums in Europe and the U.S., and last year were exhibited at 150 shows. Versatile and prolific, she did a large serigraph exhibit for the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair, designed advertisements for Westinghouse, and gift wrapping for Neiman-Marcus. Her friends range from...
Archaic Rules. The right to speedy trial was articulated as long ago as Magna Carta (1215) and later in the Sixth Amendment (1791) for the pur pose of preventing prolonged detention without trial. Today, most states apply the right to defendants on bail or in jail; one modern purpose is to prevent ero sion of trial evidence. But Klopfer was out of luck in North Carolina, which restricted the right only to defendants in custody...
Like no other mayor since Fiorello La Guardia, Lindsay has displayed a style and vitality that seem to pump adrenaline into the city. He calls his administration a "wild show" and pur sues his quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard...