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...dusk, they were startled to see two young men, aged 18 and 19, being marched through Belfast's Falls Road slum, heavily populated by Catholics. A group of angry members of the I.R.A. (the outlawed Irish Republican Army) tied the two boys to a lamppost and poured cold tar varnish and feathers over their shaved heads. Placards tied around the victims' necks proclaimed; "This man has been found guilty and confessed to breaking and entering. This sentence has been passed by the Republican movement...
...current congressional campaign, radical liberal seems to be an elastic blanket covering a huge bed, strangely cohabited by "the northeastern Establishment," the more inflamed students and the militant blacks. The term radical liberal is bitterly resented by many as an effort to smear liberalism with the unpopular tar of radicalism. Other Agnew critics ridicule his concoction as a monstrous juncture of utterly incompatible political types. Both the resentment and the ridicule are essentially justified...
Stephen Klim, a sometime house painter, had worked out a tidy arrangement with the manager of San Francisco's Junior Tar Hotel. Klim would pay the $10 weekly rent in cash, if he had it. If not, he would paint a room or two. Claiming that the painter had fallen in arrears, the hotel padlocked his room, which contained all his personal belongings. Klim sued, seeking his goods plus damages and contending that he had been relieved of his property without due process...
...Junior Tar quickly restored his personal effects. In the U.S. district court where the suit was tried, Klim then won a greater victory. Judge Gerald Levin ruled that California's 95-year-old Innkeeper's Lien Law was unconstitutional. Tracing the statute back to its antecedents in the common law of medieval England, the judge held that the times no longer allow a hotel the right to deprive a nonpaying guest of his property without due process. The statute, Levin said, "effectively clothes the California innkeeper with the badge of the sheriff and the robes of the judge...
...contrast, our Minuteman is designed for no such first-strike function. It exists for retaliatory strikes on "soft" tar gets such as Soviet cities. Given this purpose, the Minuteman is hardly small; with its accuracy, it is capable of destroying on a one-for-one basis - one missile, one city...