pleasant, you may Day, DUE UnTOr tunately there was no snow.
Instead Gerry had to spend his такіпо DrovocatIve marks about granting statehood to America's Caribbean Puerto Why? Quite simply Puerto Rico has considerable offsnole gas and or deposits which THE beleaguered Socialist Party Government in Portugal TounG a measure oT renet wnen terity plan and 1977 Budget were.
the Assembly. and West Germany ana How ue IMr maicates Ine tawn wnica international TInance nasi Soares. But his anti-working class were only approved cause of abstention of the wommunistrary Ine economic ane oolical cr. sis ot ine Portuguese regime is not over. Industrial and tural production has not been stabilised, and the country's foreigr reserves are runninG latest DIowa tonowing me resionation of the Agriculture Minister, Walter Rosa, after the arrest of his son for a bank ToDDery 488-00 J080 Kosas smal contribution to the financial crisis.
INDIA SINCE 1969. on Moscow's ins tructions, the Indian Communist Congress Party of Indira Gandhi. With the introduction me state or emergency in 19rs me cr nas oecome a cheeneade for the regime with the most poliBut now they have been a bit indiscreet. A CP criticism of her sor anayas been me occasion tora blistering attack by Gandhi on her nothing to alleviate the CP's posi dictatorsnIo Gandhi needs Moscow's support cation for an independent Puerto Rican presence at the Law of the ocd conrerence tumes cown missinGer The incoming Democratic б. ministration is unlikely to statehood.
They nicalls wilbe remain a colony.
Michael Foot, long-time defender inolar Ganenis devanure rom une oolnical scene at this berioc wollid aus. have been a tragedy for the Indian Which Indian Michael?
CEYLON ANOTHER South Asian CP with rowiels is beyion. Muter une star or me cenera sake aaainst reDression in December, initiated by the Trotskyist-led Ceylon Mercan increasing numbers of workers have been coming out or Ware Celands nas Inreatened striking ran workne ers with imprisonment.
cass insecting tot including been torced to suboon ine Untortunately tor tnem, Prime Minister Bandaranaike, the CP forms part of the ruling coalition. workers' likely to provoke a newcovem mental crisis.
THE last free press' in the Arab word, une Lebanese, Is to be sud of The main force behind the ship. to Government sition seems to be the cupying cooneary worrea about me suD versive entect on their roone oi reading newspapers.
class which is already subject to severe DUE done It is the Levanese bress or ins Syrian army, one or the other must go', said the Syrian Foreign Minipearl PCUPIC ne governmen!
Mas action and TOT Censorshio DoUreCOrs Artis were convicted of shooting DaLrons at the Lafayette Grill, New Jersey, USA.
Had "Hurricane' Carter not HICH. been a well-known black boxer whose cause was subsequently taken up by Bob Dylan, that would probably have been the end of the matter. But once the case began to cracks began to The star witnesses against the two blacks themselves faced charges at the time for armed robbery. Another witness gave a death-bed description of the gunmen which was entirely at variance with Artis Casc The clothes Artis and Carter wore at the time of their arrest were not those worn by the gunYet even the policeman in - charge of the investigation agreed that it was 'impossible" for the defendants to have changed clothes between the time of the shooting and the time they were stopped.
Another eye-witness was unable verdict was returned. Then in 1974 the two witnesses whose testimonies had convicted the pair recanted. Alfred Bello and Arthur Bradley said that the police had pressurised them into giving evidence against Cartet and Artis. A re-trial was ordered and took place late last year.
At the new trial Bello took back his recantation; but Bradley, who was not called to testily, stands by his. Yet still Carter and Artis were re-convicted.
This time it was not so much the that proved decisive. Rather it was the black defendants, the all-white jury and the manner in which the prosecuting council conducted his Prosecutor Humphries, depri ved of evidence, argued on motive instead, claiming that the killing was racial - revenge for the killing of a black bartender by a white man a few hours before. Summing up, Humphries told the jury: much as volemay want to look away, to say it didn't happen for tnat reason, it ala happen tot Ma Indicating the accused, he continued, 'Evaluate these people in a real life setting. and to the tury he said, 'Call upon your own backgrounds That was the end of the matter. The prosecution had raised spectre of black revenge before the white jury. It did not part Harly matter wetner the rigni
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