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...Germans said that they would be willing to help out by making early repayment of $787 million they owe the U.S., provided that the U.S. take $187 million off that amount as credit for the estimated value of German assets seized by the U.S. in World War II. They would also agree to prepay about $350 million on current U.S. arms contracts and boost Germany's share of NATO housekeeping costs by $18 million. On paper, the total contribution came to about $1 billion, but practically all of it was money the U.S. was going to get anyway...
...year or so with a less propagandistic daily printed in the $4,500,000 printing plant that the East Germans have promised to build for him near Accra. In undisguised anguish, the Times and News printed appeals to their declining readership. "Don't ever forget the debt you owe to this gallant paper," implored the News. "To forget it is to betray yourself and Africa. Read the valiant Evening News and keep yourself in perfect tune with the spirit of militant fighting Africa." But there was no evidence that anyone was listening-least of all the Osagyefo...
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's, You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St. Martin...
...Director Roger Vadim (who gave the world Brigitte Bardot), "plants a sword in the human consciousness, for it tells of young volunteers who, in order to prove their human identity, accept precisely the contrary: loss of their individuality . . . Still, I know well while writing these words freely that I owe my freedom in part to other shaved-headed young men who 16 years ago brandished these bayonets on beaches now boasting bloody names...
...suppose that these syndromes are just the results of big intensive boarding schools. But what is attributed to the individual schools is actually neither confined to their graduates not universal among them. Moreover, the two cases, though parallel, are quite different, and other parallels can be found which owe no scholastic allegiance...