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...constructive Congresses in history." Re publican Leader Joe Martin was less ex travagant, but conceded: "It has been a hard-working Congress. It has enacted many meritorious measures, but it has failed to come to grips with many others." Whenever the 84th got too blatantly political, it was slapped ba-k. The Presi dent made his veto stick on the Southern-Democratic-sponsored natural gas bill, al though he was "in accord with its basic objectives," because he got a strong whiff of "arrogant" lobbying (TIME...
...barter deal when he could have a cash deal is crazy." The experience has not diminished Bur ma's determination - as a small country with a thousand-mile Chinese border - to stick to official neutralism, but Burma is now becoming neutral against the Com munists. Already Premier Ba Swe's gov ernment has reversed Burma's decision of three years ago to refuse all economic and technical aid from the U.S. The gov ernment has hired a Chicago manage ment firm to help reorganize its bureauc racy. The U.S. has recently agreed to send technicians to Burma...
...colorful life than young Le Quang Vinh. He led a 20,000-man army all his own, recruited from the Hoa Hao, a sect which successfully combined religion and pillage. To dramatize his hatred of the French, he chopped off the end of a finger and called himself Ba Cut. In protest against the Geneva conference that split Viet Nam, he refused to cut his hair. Refusing also to recognize the sovereignty of the new nation of South Viet Nam, he terrorized the back country, declared he would lop off the head of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. But last April...
...Ba Cut underwent three trials for murder; each time he was condemned to death. When Diem refused to pardon him, Ba Cut asked to be shot like a soldier. One night last week 32-year-old Ba Cut wrote a farewell letter, asking his parents to care for the innumerable children of his nine wives. Then, before dawn, he was driven in an army truck to Cantho cemetery. Dressed in black, his waist-length hair now cut short, Ba Cut was led to the place of execution. Only then did he discover that his plea for a firing squad...
...Ba Cut walked resolutely forward, placed his body on the execution platform. As dawn came to Cantho cemetery, the blade swished down and General Ba Cut's head rolled into one basket, his body into another...