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...Service, was peremptorily handcuffed and hustled to the airport, was Guatemala-bound before he could phone his wife or pick up a toothbrush. Last week, while the American Civil Liberties Union attacked the "to talitarian tactics" of the Immigration agents, the Internal Revenue Service slapped a $835,000 tax lien on the squat mobster, charged him with leaving the country without a permit...
...buyers who would have to spend at least as much as the purchase price to finish their houses, plus countless hours of their own labor, would turn out to be the best risks. They have: Walter homes have a repossession rate half the national average. Since Walter has a lien on the land plus the house improvements, he usually comes out ahead...
...general, those nations that sigh for some way to negotiate an end to the cold war leaned to the Democrats; those that believe in the tough line felt better on the side of the Republicans. Formosa's daily Lien Ho Jih Pao suspected that "Senator Kennedy is not mature on the China problem." Many Turks seemed to agree with an Ankara businessman who said: "Nixon was willing to stand up to the Russians, but we don't know anything about Kennedy." In Britain and the Scandinavian countries, where nostalgia for Adlai Stevenson remains high, much sentiment favored...
Died. Dr. Wu Lien-teh, 81, plague expert who saved thousands of his fellow Chinese by rushing vaccine to them when the 1910 pneumonic plague epidemic struck, by convincing them that the plague was not a visitation of the gods but a curable earthly ill; in Penang, Malaya...
...here. But a sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...