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...vanished, vowing trouble, the ruling military junta issued a panicky decree authorizing plain citizens to shoot on sight "outlaws," i.e., political opponents of the government. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens of the growing danger and began flying families of U.S. officials to Puerto Rico. Reason: in the growing breakdown of law and order, one U.S. citizen had already been brutally killed...
...Yale plan includes no apportionment for faculty salaries, because the Council felt that this was the province of the University Corporation. Breakdown of the fund drive, however, shows $56 million going to "teaching and research, including student aid," whereas only $53 million is allotted to physical "plant and equipment...
...Delhi, Shriman Narayan, general secretary of Nehru's Congress Party, back from a tour of Kerala, reported a "complete breakdown of law and order." Red Minister Namboodiripad was proud of it: he plans, he said, to close many of the state's jails and turn their grounds into public flower gardens. He had already freed many Communists from jail, whatever the charges on which they were convicted...
...cause of all this excitement was the sensational success of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, which cruised 69,138 miles, more than half of them submerged, on a single charge of uranium fuel. She never had a breakdown, and her performance forced the Navy's heavy thinkers to rewrite the textbooks of naval warfare...
...imperialist policy which heads for war. We notice doubts in the purposefulness of our alliance with the Soviet Union, in the importance of Soviet aid for our economy, and in the Soviet support of our national interests. In the army there are still many activists who experienced a breakdown of faith after the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party and who are in the throes of a spiritual struggle. But how long can a Communist live as a moral wreck or as an offended virgin? A soldier who observes discipline by fear is good for parades, but we cannot...