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...embattled lines. From a rooftop vantage point in Premier Kishi's compound, which was conveniently across the street from the Diet, Campbell had a bird's-eye view of the major fighting-when not ducking flying rocks and spurting fire hoses. Working near by in a sector where empty soda bottles were the demonstrators' weapons, Correspondent Iwama, a Canadian-Japanese, dodged the sailing glassware but absorbed an eye-smarting dose of tear gas when the police retaliated...
...accompanied by a faint but distinct celestial choir) decides to partition Gaillardia, an act undertaken with marvelous literalness by painting a chalk line down its middle, ruthlessly separating sow from piglet, peasant from privy. To their horror, the British discover that a deposit of Epsom salts in the Russian sector is really cobalt. "D you realize," says CB, ''we could absolutely blow up the entire world? Smashing." The muddling has just begun...
...love. Nor is it the trivial reckoning of a small tradesman: Give me and I shall give you. My prayer is the report of a soldier to his general: This is what I did today, this is how I fought to save the entire battle in my own sector, these are the obstacles I found, this is how I plan to fight tomorrow. It is not God who will save us-it is we who will save God, by battling, by creating, and by transmuting matter into spirit...
...every sector of his activities he must inspire his private and public conduct by the laws, orientation and instructions of the hierarchy." In response to the editorial, Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger, issued a statement: "The American officeholder is committed by an oath to God to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, which includes Article I providing for the separation of church and state." Kennedy's support of this principle "is not subject to change under any condition...
When they got home, they made many policy changes. No longer in any new venture must Indians hold majority stock control. No longer are such fields as petroleum and synthetic rubber to be dominated by the "public sector," i.e., state-owned. American investors have been guaranteed dollar compensation if the Indian government should decide to expropriate a business. A new flock of tax incentives has been introduced, including a virtual tax holiday on profits during the first five years...