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...should be brought home now. All foreign aid, now largely military in character, should be ended until our urgent domestic priorities are met, and if and when resumed, should be funnelled through the United Nations; and all ancillary military forces, such as the ROTC and Reserves, should be ended forthwith. The latter two only serve now as a lobby for the maintenance of a large, agressive military force...
...catch-22 of a debtors' prison: he could pay if he could work, but he cannot get out to work until he pays. He now is trying to persuade the court that he is willing to pay-if he ever can. The state supreme court sent his petition "forthwith" back to the trial court for a hearing on whether he should be released. Meanwhile, it costs the state as much as $14,000 a year to incarcerate him, plus welfare costs for his wife and three of his nine children who are still minors...
Nonetheless, as soon as the communique was signed, Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira summoned newsmen to hear a crisp announcement. Japan, he said, considered its 1952 peace treaty with Chiang's government as having "ceased to be valid," and would sever relations forthwith. Angrily condemning Japan's "perfidious actions," the Nationalist government severed relations with Tokyo and threw a cordon of troops around the Japanese embassy in Taipei in order to protect it from possible mob violence...
Gijsen (pronounced roughly Highsen) also informed the pastoral council and the diocesan chapter-a group of priests who work directly with and advise a bishop-that he no longer had any use for their advice. The diocesan's personnel staff forthwith resigned. A poll showed that the majority of the diocese's priests had decided they simply could not work with Gijsen. Some no longer consider him their bishop at all. Said one deacon: "We have to deal with a problem named Jo Gijsen who happened to become a bishop...
...government said it was not considering this type of question on October 29, and it moved for immunity for Popkin. The court granted that motion, and ordered that Popkin "appear forthwith before the grand jury and testify and produce evidence with respect to all matters under inquiry by the grand jury." Popkin followed the order, appeared before the grand jury and was again excused temporarily...