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...empty. Where were the gamblers they had been tipped off about? Gone, said the tipster. They had moved their bookmaking and policy operation to another house down the block. What to do? Was it legal to go after them in their new lair even though the search warrant specified the first address and not the second...
Powell's no-show was prompted by prudence; there was a warrant out for his arrest. With a citation for criminal contempt still hanging over him, he appealed for immunity from arrest on Sundays, was turned down 4 to 1 by the judges of the New York Appellate Division. "Surely," the court ruled, "one who disobeys an order during six days of the week is not entitled to an advis ory opinion that he may safely ignore it on the seventh." Had Powell come to New" York and got himself arrested, there was a strong possibility that Harlem would...
...eleven hours one day last week, Philippine Constabulary troopers nervously ringed a low frame house in the town of Mabalacat, 55 miles northwest of Manila. Finally, an officer arrived with a search warrant. What the Con stabulary found inside was worth waiting for: shadowy Dominador Garcia, 34, alias Commander Ely, the No. 3 man in the Hukbong Magpapalaya sa Bayan,-the backwoods Communist guerrillas known as Huks. Garcia surrendered without a fight...
...Luther returned to Wittenberg to put into effect a spiritual reform that became the model for much of Germany. The episcopate was abolished, since Luther had found no Scriptural warrant for the office of bishop. Clerical celibacy was abandoned, even for monks and nuns-and in 1525, Luther married a former nun, Katherine von Bora. The sacraments were reduced from seven to two: baptism and the Lord's Supper. Luther revised the Latin liturgy and translated it into German, allowing the laity to receive the consecrated wine as well as the Host, substituting a new popular hymnody for Gregorian...
...present position in Paris, Bohlen is, of course, most concerned with NATO. He recognizes that the necessity for a massive American economic aid effort in Europe is gone. But he feels that the Soviet threat to Western Europe is still great enough to warrant an American military presence. He feels that the strength of the detente with Russia has been overestimated. He has little faith in the continuity of Soviet foreign policy and emphasizes that the Russian "official ideology is still basically and fundamentally hostile to our concept of the organization of society...