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Thus "The Test" came to Britain last week. From now on, British drivers will be obliged by law to submit to random curbside "Breathalyser" tests, blowing their breath into 8-in. glass tubes containing alcohol-sensitive yellow crystals. If the crystals turn green, the next stop is the police station for a blood test or urinalysis. Anyone showing a reading of 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood faces almost certain conviction and a maximum penalty of four months in jail, a $280 fine and a one-year license suspension. Since the level is so low that some...
...Random and abusive use of police authority threaten the city's well-being and its citizens' respect for law far more seriously than the minor irritations occasioned by transient hippies...
...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER by William Styron. 428 pages. Random House...
Leatherneck Square. The Communists fire their artillery at Con Thien on a random schedule to keep the Marines guessing when the next bombardment or the lone round of explosives will crunch into the camp. "Those single rounds are the most dangerous," says a young Marine. "But the barrages wear you down. You just lie there shaking and saying 'Please, Christ, just get me out of this...
Eshkol's government is both angry and concerned over a new rash of Arab terrorism. It began with random minings of roads and railroads, but has spread to such targets as the former Fast Hotel in Old Jerusalem, which was dynamited (it was scheduled to be torn down anyway), and a large canning factory at Givat Haim, which was blasted by a tractor toting 25 lbs. of TNT. The professional jobs are thought to be the work of the Syrian-trained terrorists of El Fatah, and Israeli agents fanned out through Arab settlements in the occupied territories picking...