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...illusion that some basis of fair procedure underlay the war trials vanished last week when Castro ordered the retrial of forty-three airmen accused of bombing civilians during the civil war. Aside from the defense that in military operations bombing civilians is perhaps inevitable, or at least has not been outlawed in recent wars, the fliers had been acquitted on the same charge by a lower court. Castro, exclaiming that they were being tried "not by law, but by the will of the people," ordered a new trial...
...major problems which underlay the recently concluded dispute over the Senior Class Marshal election is one that deserves considerable thought during the coming months. Since the advent of the House system in the early 1930's, College-wide elections have become increasingly anachronistic. With Harvard broken down into small, 400-man compartments it is very difficult to attach much more significance to a class election than one would to a contest to see which undergraduate has managed to get his name before the most students during his four years at Harvard...
...political fact that underlay the rumbling was that the Vice President, on the campaign front, was in vigorous dissent from the President's kind of above-the-battle political leadership. "There has developed in recent years," said Nixon in Salt Lake City, "the unsound idea that hard-hitting debate on the issues which confront the country is somehow wrong and detrimental to the best interests of the nation. We need more of this kind of debate in this country, both in and out of political campaigns, rather than less...
Discontent with the past, as much as concern for the future, underlay France's passive acceptance of De Gaulle's severe formulas. Last week the special parliamentary commission meekly approved De Gaulle's proposed new constitution by a vote of 30-0 (with nine abstentions and absences), even though it spelled the end of parliamentary ascendancy...
...chill of such memories and the barrier of hostile intentions underlay all the official amenities. In the circumstances Mikoyan performed adroitly, alternating charm and the needle, and conceding nothing...