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...turned civil rights activist, and one of the last two people in the U.S. to be jailed for refusing to answer the question, Are you a communist?; in Los Angeles. In the early '50s, at a hearing for an innovative low-income, racially integrated housing project?one viewed with suspicion by the city's business leaders?an official asked for a list of his affiliations. After refusing to answer, and later doing the same before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was fired, spent nine months in jail and later co-founded the pro-dissent First Amendment Foundation...
...citizens. It was the existence of those files ... which gave even the most ardent admirer of the FBI a slightly uneasy feeling [during "the trial of the eleven top U.S. Communist leaders"]. It was not that very many people objected to flushing out Communists ... But it was a suspicion that any such collection was bound to damn the innocent as well as the guilty ... In a nation where nobody loves a cop ... the further question arose: Had the U.S. created a budding Gestapo? ... As long as the U.S. felt the need to keep G-man Hoover checking...
...arrests have been made, and the police have named no suspects yet, but suspicion is increasingly zeroing in on the Islamist terror outfits that have been waging a mounting campaign of terror against India. The Lashkar-e-Toiba, a jihadist group that aims to drive India out of Kashmir, is a prime suspect, but Bangladesh-based terror outfits are also considered potential culprits. India's security experts have been warning for months that it was only a matter of time before terrorists attacked Bangalore in a bid to weaken the country's booming technology sector. In March this year, Indian...
...Anyone worried that Broadway has no room for anything but tourist-friendly comfort food could only marvel at the arrival of this hair-raising drama from McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane). A writer of sadistic children's stories is thrown into prison on suspicion of committing a string of grisly child murders, in a play so intense and disturbing that some critics (and many in the audience) tried to pass it off as a comedy...
...hours after his return from Paris, where he had taken refuge after being told he was on a hit list; in Beirut. The latest in a series of attacks on anti-Syrian leaders in Lebanon, the bombing occurred hours before an interim U.N. report reinforced the widely held suspicion that Syria was behind the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February. In his last column as editor of the respected daily An Nahar, the dapper, optimistic Tueni wrote that Lebanon "never was and never will be part of Syria...