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...want to demand that the United continuing effort to obtain a negotiated peace, just to both sides, and that the government should not use its plea for 'unconditional discussions' as a shield for States government make an earnest and the continuation...
...years of existence, the Central Treaty Organization has never been much of an alliance. One of the original members, Iraq, soon dropped out. As others-Iran, Pakistan and Turkey -became more chummy with Moscow, CENTO's essential purpose as a military shield against Communist aggression lost its urgency. Nevertheless, alliances seem to have a life of their own, and last week delegates from the CENTO nations gathered solemnly in Teheran for the 13th ministerial meeting. With the opening speeches out of the way, the delegates spent two days composing a communique that satisfied no one, yet had the sound...
...after case, the Supreme Court is putting new muscle into the 174-year-old Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Amendments 1 through 8 were long held to protect individuals only against the powers of the Federal Government, but now they are becoming a shield against the states as well. Last week the court raised that shield once more by applying to all state criminal courts the Sixth Amendment guarantee that anyone accused of crime shall "be confronted with the witnesses against...
...same course. It was fought on a site of the canny Scot's selection: a dry field bordered on two sides by sodden carseland. The front was so narrow that the English could not bring up archers or engines. It was the English cavalry against the Scottish schiltrom (shield ring), and for the first time in British history the schiltrom carried...
...Seattle. The doctors insert two plastic tubes in the patient's forearm, one into an artery and the other into a vein. With the patient's own heart serving as the pump, his blood is led into a loop of tubing and carried behind a lead shield. There, it is subjected to massive bombardment-with isotopic radiation by Dr. Eugene P. Cronkite at Brookhaven, or with X rays by Dr. E. Donnall Thomas' group in Seattle...