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...Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled this week that President Derek C. Bok does not have to testify in a landmark lawsuit against the Law School until it is determined whether or not the case will be dismissed...
...motion filed Dec. 17, Boston attorney Lee S. MacPhee argued that news articles about the case have biased potential jurors' minds, making a fair trial here impossible. He asked Suffolk Superior Court Judge Malcolm Graham to shift the case to Franklin, Hampshire or Berkshire County, or to bring a jury from one of those counties to Boston to hear the case...
...began: "Democracy may, after all, turn out to have been a historical accident, a brief parenthesis that is closing before our eyes . . . It will have lasted a little over two centuries, to judge by the speed of growth of the forces bent on its destruction." Principal among those superior hostile forces was world communism...
...raced to his rescue during the failed coup, were posted far outside Panama City. Another, less predictable menace was posed by the brutal Dignity Battalions: 8,000 fanatical pro-Noriega irregulars who had savagely attacked opposition leaders in the aftermath of last May's aborted election. Confronted by superior American forces, many P.D.F. soldiers slipped away, only to reappear later and launch counterattacks in Panama City...
...huge military transports were landing at ten-minute intervals at Howard Air Force Base, doubtless alerting Noriega that a U.S. strike might soon be under way. Pentagon spokesmen dismissed the airlift as a routine exercise. But total surprise had never loomed large in Pentagon planning, which depended on vastly superior manpower, firepower and speedy execution...