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Four other French businessmen have been seized and released (for ransoms as high as $3.2 million) in the past three years. But Empain is the most important yet, and his kidnaping occurred at a time when such crimes have become regular incidents elsewhere, especially in Italy. Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte appealed for Empain's return, citing the "hundreds of kidnapings" in Italy and their effect on that country. Said he: "We don't want a reign of violence and anarchy" in France. Other wealthy Frenchmen noted grimly that Empain habitually went about without bodyguards, something no Italian...
...back in 1955, their agreement specified that for each shipment, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service must sign a statement declaring: "I hereby certify that the monkeys now being purchased will be used only for medical research or he production of anti-poliomyelitis vaccine ... and that regular inspections shall be made to assure humane treatment of these monkeys." The agreement also declared that rhesus monkeys "will not be used in atomic blast experiments or for pace research...
...conversation of board chairman and bored charwoman, of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor. As if this basic coin of conversation needed to be gilded, the average American constantly reads about the weather in his newspapers and magazines, listens to regular forecasts of it on the radio and watches while some TV prophet milks it for cuteness on the evening news...
Although the visiting fellowship does not provide a stipend, as the regular fellowships do, Thomson said private institutions and foundations are collecting funds to support Woods, his wife, and five children, during their stay at Harvard...
Despite discouragement of plea bargaining, conviction rates are startlingly high: 94% nationally, compared with a regular conviction rate of 73%. That rate naturally troubles defense attorneys. Some of them are critical of the program on grounds that it is racist, because a notable percentage of career criminals are black. Others claim that their clients are stigmatized by the career-criminal category, even though the trial jury never learns the defendant has been specially labeled. The career-criminal program has reduced the gap between arrest and trial to about 60 days in some cities, a marked improvement. Remarks Boston Prosecutor Lloyd...