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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most free-world governments grant their Chief Executive a more powerful mandate. Save for Argentina, Finland, India, Portugal and West Germany, which use modified Electoral College systems, democratic nations that have written their constitutions in the years since 1787 have generally avoided the Electoral College compromise in favor of either direct popular election (as in France and Mexico) or a variation on the English parliamentary system...
...forbidden to mention that Czechoslovaks were killed and wounded by the invading armies. It is also forbidden to talk about the damage that trigger-happy Soviet soldiers and their tanks inflicted on Czechoslovak buildings and autos. Above all, there must be no criticism of Warsaw Pact countries or use of the word "occupation." Censors canceled a nationwide TV and radio address by Dubcek one hour before broadcast time because he planned to say that the resumption of censorship was to be only a temporary measure. A few days later, he finally got to make his speech, but the section...
...Spotlights have been placed on the roof, on the patio, on the lawn. Many of them can be turned on at Huie's bedside. "There are no shadows around this house at night," he says. The house is also equipped with three Remington riot guns, one for the use of guests. Huie, a crack shot, also has a riot gun fastened to the front seat of his car. "I try to be prudent, remembering how Medgar Evers was murdered," he says, referring to the Mississippi civil rights leader who was shot in the back while returning home one night...
...heard a radio report of a double shooting in New Cassel, only a couple of miles from Westbury. At that very moment, said the radio, the man with the gun was barricaded in a basement laundry room, where police had been besieging him for hours. They dared not use force, because the man was threatening to kill the two-year-old girl whom he was holding as hostage. What really gripped Pone's attention was the gunman's name: Winston Mitchell. For Mitchell was one of his patients...
...city departments such as Los Angeles and Boston generally use a variety of tests combined with psychiatric interviews. A number of departments throw in a polygraph (lie detector) test...