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...ironic that those who extol upon the wonders of Israeli "democracy" advocate repression as a means of solving the Palestinian problem. It is ironic that they cite Lebanon as the villain in the current wave of terrorism, never raising the question of what 300,000 Palestinians are doing in Lebanon in the first place...
...people would prefer, if he were alive, to cast Boris Karloff in the role instead. At the very moment of its triumph, the press has become a villain to many, for Watergate has also focused attention on journalism's weaknesses. Despite the accomplishments of the past two years, newsmen have ample reason to feel besieged, and many are torn between self-congratulation and self-doubt...
...villain in Mrs. Ware's case is a tax law enacted by the Illinois legislature two decades ago. Drafted with the help of real estate operators, the measure authorizes local governments to auction off a two-month-overdue property-tax bill-if the owner does not respond to a warning notice within three weeks. The buyer of the overdue bill can take full title to the property two years later-again, after giving notice -if the owner has paid no part of the taxes or the interest. Ostensibly, the law is meant to provide an incentive for private enforcement...
...snatches the deed to her home from the poor heroine, the movie villain always sneers that "it's all perfectly legal." In real life, eviction can be just as cruel. One spring day in 1972 when some prospective buyers stopped by, Lillian K. Ware, 58, a black private nurse, learned for the first time that she no longer owned her $25,000 home in Evanston, Ill.; the title had been taken over some months before by a local real estate speculator. Barring some legal miracle, Mrs. Ware's subsequent two-year court battle against tough lawyers...
...pages of transcript and run up a probable $500,000 in costs-and the case for the defense has not yet begun. From the plaintiffs' side, at least, the cast is Dickensian: the suicide artist, the wronged daughter, a brace of crooked or bungling trustees and a villain-Machiavelli and Scrooge McDuck rolled up in one banker's suit...