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...neutralization is indeed to prove the ultimate formula for Southeast Asia, the Johnson Administration was not notably eager to embrace it yet. Nor was Peking, which has yet to give any shred of evidence that it is willing to relinquish its ambitions to foment "wars of liberation" throughout Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Even apart from its evangelistic mission to win the world for Communism, neutralism seems unlikely to appeal to the aging hierarchy in Peking, which seems more than ever convinced that it needs more rather than less militancy to sustain its own revolutionary mystique at home...
Rebelling against Canadian efforts to make them pay taxes, relinquish their squatters' rights and send their children to school, the Freedomites embarked on a career of terrorism. During the past 40 years, they have been held accountable for 1,112 "depredations" ranging from blowing up power pylons and railroad bridges to planting ingenious booby traps in cigarette packs, which are then dropped in non-Doukhobor towns. All told, the Freedomite terrorists have caused $20 million in damage and taken 20 lives...
Hughes will relinquish his positions as chairman of the History and Literature program, and acting chairman of the Social Studies program...
...pace. Although he was forced out of a promising Air Force career at 45 by heart trouble he has lately been working a 100-hour week at M.I.T. and as chairman of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. He also sits on six company boards, intends to relinquish all of these seats to avoid conflicts of interest. So anxious is he to get into space that last week he had no sooner finished a speaking engagement in Los Angeles than he jetted to Washington overnight to attend his first Comsat board meeting-still attired in his dinner jacket...
...Cypriots, which effectively barred the Turkish community from the seats it had held in the House of Representatives. Turk ish Cypriot Representatives, who have not been attending meetings for fear of their lives, tried to re-enter the cham ber but were refused admittance unless they would agree to relinquish the veto that they hold over legislation under the constitution. When Turkey angrily placed the matter before the U.N., Ankara's NATO partners reaffirmed their desire for peace on the island, but failed to step in energetically on Turkey's behalf. In Moscow last week, Urguplu made...