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...next year, Iraq will apparently be run by the Baath Central Committee (which includes a Jordanian, a Lebanese and a Kuwaiti as well as Iraqi and Syrian generals) and by Michel Aflak, the Secretary-General and real power in the party. It was the first time that Aflak, a withdrawn, seemingly gentle intellectual who has sanctioned the executions of hundreds of political opponents, emerged from his shadowy position behind the scenes...
...position as a member of the foundation. Sarita's cousin also sued for reinstatement, and got an injunction preventing Brother Leo, Grace and associates from touching any of the estate's funds. In addition, he demanded an accounting of $1,000,000 that Brother Leo had withdrawn from Texas banks, apparently to finance the South American monasteries...
...member of the Williams College Civil Rights Committee, I was pleased and proud of Harvard's suggestion that Wallace debate his views with a member of the faculty of the law school. The CRIMSON anticipated Wallace's refusal to debate and a proposal was made that the invitation be withdrawn. After all, if a man will not intellectually defend his code of action, then there is no reason for him to voice his prejudiced views at one of the country's foremost academic institutions. The final article, which I read of that date, stated that Wallace had absolutely refused debate...
Only two days after Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Frankfurt repeated the U.S. pledge to maintain six divisions in West Germany, newspapers reported that the U.S. has "scheduled the withdrawal" of an armored cavalry regiment from Germany. Sooner or later it may indeed be withdrawn but not for the time being. Anyway, the 5,000-man regiment plus five other regiments were rushed to Germany at the height of the Berlin crisis in 1961 in order to reinforce the six U.S. divisions committed to NATO. These temporary reinforcements would all have been brought back after the crisis eased...
Nonlegal Threat. While delighting some installment debtors, the court decisions jolted the state's economy. Several large finance companies have already withdrawn from operations in Nebraska. Sales of new and used cars have slumped for lack of financing. Last week state legislators proposed more than a dozen different bills designed to straighten up the mess. One remedy advocated by many Nebraska businessmen is to change the overall limit from 9% to 12%, which would make it possible to finance future installment sales profitably. But that would still leave past contracts in a state of legal chaos...