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...steak knife, forcing British authorities to take him on as a hospital patient. The delay that Soblen won by his dramatic suicide attempt immediately created a legal tangle. Though the Home Office insisted that Soblen was not legally in Britain, two barristers-one a Labor M.P.-obtained a writ of habeas corpus delaying his departure at least until after a court hearing next week. Soblen himself applied for political asylum in Britain, and at week's end had recovered sufficiently to be moved to London's Brixton Prison...
...considering taking the case to the Circuit Court of Appeals to force Judge Curran to make an immediate ruling on the writ of mandamus. A decision on this action will be made...
Bloomfield's novel, which despite its ostensible subject matter is not the least pornographic, leaves its readers impressed but dissatisfied. The author has stated intelligently the case against goodness gone rancid. But too often the moving finger, having writ, fails to move on; instead it remains bonily pointing out a moral or explicating a word derivation. Some of this is helpful, but the reader is spared the invigorating effort and delight of discovery...
Michiganders of both parties have long recognized the need for constitutional reform. The current constitution was writ ten in 1908, has been amended 67 times, now runs 13,000 words longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is cluttered with archaic provisions, including one which puts a $250,000 ceiling on the state debt. Like many another state constitution, it apportions legislative representation in a fashion that is, after half a century of shifting population, totally unrealistic. The only real issue, after voters last spring approved a convention to draft a new constitution, was which party would elect more delegates...
...prevented any delegation of responsibility to local leadership. Clearly Ngo is needed in South Vietnam, but it is equally clear that his central government is becoming more and more alienated from the rural peasantry. Despite the election's results, South Vietnam resembles nothing so much as a 1946 China writ small...