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Robert Mars and Enrico Spina were arrested March 11 after they had threatened a Jewish student and spray-painted Nazigraffiti on his door. The case has not yet come to trial...
...cheering crowds in Rhyl. At one point, the tiny voice of Simon Edwin, 7, caught her ear. "My dad says give us a kiss," said Simon. "Well then," Diana replied, bending forward, "you had better let me have one." Further on, the princess spotted Joanne Edwards, 8, crippled by spina bifida. "Do you want a hug?" she asked the young girl. Whispered Joanne: "Oh yes, please." Diana lifted her out of her wheelchair and kissed her softly...
...advanced testing: ultrasonic scanning to check the position, size and bodily shape of the fetus as it developed; monitoring of hormone levels and fetal heart beat; and perhaps withdrawal of amniotic fluid from the womb to determine whether the child had Down's syndrome (mongolism), the congenital malformation called spina bifida or any number of other genetic defects. Had the doctors detected any serious problems, Lesley Brown could have quickly received an abortion. Observed Dr. Stuart J. Steele of London's Middlesex Hospital Medical School: "Mrs. Brown would have had all the very close medical supervision that one would expect...
...simultaneously. In addition to Forster, there was Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine, the story of an Italian Communist resistance fighter who returns to fascist Italy disguised as a priest. Nick's father was a well-known Pittsburgh doctor; mine a Chicago criminal lawyer. The personal poignance of Pietro Spina, the rich young man who gives his life to the poor, and foregoes comfort because of his faith--not in God, but in his people--was so close to our hopes (I hope not illusions) about ourselves...
...guess a socialist in American must feel a lot like Spina did in the book: at one point, while an entire Italian town is rallying in support of Mussolini's attack on Africa, Spina paints on walls slogans like "Long Live the African People," "Down With Imperialism," and "Long Live the International." Silone makes clear that the townspeople wanted to murder the person who wrote those blasphemous things. America in 1975 is not yet fascist Italy, but Nick understood what it was like to uphold human decency while everyone else seemed to worship power, money and terror...