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Premier Adnan Menderes seems to believe that the simplest way to end domestic criticism of his government is to pass a law against it. After his re-election last fall, Menderes rammed through another in a series of restrictive laws making it a criminal offense for a newspaper to print anything said in Parliament that the Assembly president deems "defamatory to Parliament or its members." Opposition Deputies protested that the law could be used to prevent publication of legitimate criticism of the government. The Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet sent a copy of the statute to Professor Husein Kubali, a Sorbonne-trained...
...simplest way to cut the physical and mental strain of space flight may be to make the crew unconscious, suggested Dr. John Lyman, U.C.L.A. associate professor of engineering and psychology. For most of the flight, he said, spacemen could be knocked out by drugs or low temperatures. They could be fed intravenously. To solve some of the same problems, Psychologist Donald Michael said that withdrawn personalities like schizophrenics or hermits might make fine spacemen, provided that they had the motivation to do their jobs. Eskimos or Buddhist monks might be good, too, because they come from "more sedentary, less timebound...
EVERY illness of the President teaches that one-man government in the United States is dangerous and that Cabinet government cannot long be delayed. The simplest solution lies in the formation of a Presidential Council, which would be created by law and would give the Chief Executive, to sit at his side, at least five persons who have been nominated by him and been confirmed by the Senate. These five men would be freed from the responsibility of administering any of the departments of the Executive branch, as Cabinet secretaries do today...
...simplest countermeasure, says Klass, is radio jamming that drowns out enemy radar or communications by brute electronic force. This sort of thing is now considered as crude as bayonet fighting. The modern objective is to blind the enemy, make him see double or lead him astray, preferably without letting him know that anything is amiss...
After he became Prime Minister of the new African state of Ghana, ambitious Kwame Nkrumah quickly discovered that the simplest way to deal with political opponents is to get rid of them. When two Moslem party leaders in Ashanti balked at Nkrumah's authority. Nkrumah rushed a bill through Parliament authorizing their deportation (TIME, Oct. 14). After hearing their appeals, Justice H. C. Smith, a Briton, ruled last week that Nkrumah was within his rights. "Since the Ghana constitution contains no safeguarding of fundamental rights." Smith wrote, "the court must uphold the law." The constitution allows Parliament to pass...