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Last week reports were circulating in Russia that Roy Medvedev had left his job at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Moscow after the KGB (the Soviet secret police) had searched his apartment, confiscated his private papers, and issued a summons for him to appear for questioning-which he refused...
Sound Barriers. Still, even the ingenious Caccavari can prescribe nothing but new equipment for the biggest group of noisemakers: motor vehicles. To date, environmental control officers have ticketed 400 vehicles-most of them heavy trucks-for exceeding legal sound barriers of 78 decibels for a car, 84 for a motorcycle...
In public areas and semipublic areas failure to stay clothed should result in a summons to court.
Josette promptly forgot about the confrontation-and the appointment-but almost a year later she received a summons ordering her to appear in criminal court on charges of using "insulting language to a magistrate exercising his duties." Maximum sentence: two years in prison.
Holton had a private talk with Nixon and left with a warm presidential handshake. With the White House and Holton refusing to discuss the urgent summons, politicians and reporters back in Richmond speculated that they had talked about the 1972 campaign in the South, even that Nixon might have offered...