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...Under that agreement, French and Moroccan nationals must be tried in their national courts for offenses committed in the other country. It would also be months before the French court could rule on that motion. In the meantime, Dlimi was comfortably ensconced in a VIP cell at Paris' Santé Prison, and l'affaire Ben Barka was where King Hassan wanted it-hopelessly enmeshed in endless legal tangles...
...state on essentially religious grounds, something that India's constitution prohibits. Not so, argued the Sikhs, who claimed it was a matter of language. They are the only one of India's 14 major linguistic groups that has not been granted a separate state. Sikh Leader Sant Fateh Singh, 54, threatened to go on a 15-day fast climaxed by self-immolation unless the demand was met. Anxious to avoid violence, the Working Committee, of which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is a mem ber, at last committed the federal government to formation of a Punjabispeaking state...
...their country. If Kashmir could secede by holding a plebiscite, the argument runs, there would be nothing to prevent Madras or Kerala or any other state from doing the same thing. The warrior Sikhs of Punjab have long dreamed of an independent nation. In fact, a Sikh leader, Sant Fateh Singh, was scheduled last week to begin a fast that would be followed by self-immolation, to force Indian acceptance of Sikh autonomy. In deference to the war emergency, Singh has postponed both his fast and his suicide. Indians compare their situation to that of the U.S., which fought...
...thick viscid mucus. Today doctors know a lot more about "C.F.", enough, in fact, to give it the unenviable reputation of being one of the most common long-lasting disorders of children, and one of their major kill ers. As a cause of death, reports Dr. Paul A. di Sant'-Agnese of the National Institutes of Health, cystic fibrosis outweighs poliomyelitis, diabetes and rheumatic fever combined. It is now clear, says Dr. di Sant'-Agnese, that C.F. affects far more than the pancreas and lungs. It involves the sweat glands, of which there are about...
...stunted because the hormone shuts down the epiphyses (growth ends) of long bones. Beyond such controversy, the most encouraging news about C.F. is that the combined effect of all the treatments has helped a great many patients to live past adolescence into young adult life. What makes Dr. di Sant'-Agnese and fellow workers in the field happiest is that seven young women with C.F. have borne ten children and, as was hopefully predicted from the recessive nature of the responsible gene, all their offspring are normal...