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This Saturday's Knights of Columbus Games will be the first test of the NCAA's power to keep its members out of AAU-sponsored events. Although three colleges withdrew yesterday from the games, 14 schools, including Yale and Columbia, are still entered...
...land with money from an agrarian reform tax. His most worrisome tendency, at least to outside eyes, was his habit of resigning his candidacy when things did not go right, in a manner reminiscent of Brazil's unstable ex-President Janio Quadros. A week before election, Bosch furiously withdrew when a minor Roman Catholic priest said that some of his old writings had a Marxist ring. Bosch confronted the priest in a TV debate, got him to withdraw the charge and used the incident to advantage...
...that had much more power than we first thought it did, because I think the Soviet Union was very reluctant to have us stop ships which carried with them a good deal of their highly secret and sensitive material. One of the reasons I think that the Soviet Union withdrew the IL-28s was because we were carrying on very intensive low-level photography. Now, no one would have guessed, probably, that that would have been such a harassment...
...economic aid, Red China sent in 22,000 laborers, who have built dams, brick kilns, a glass factory, and a 50,000-kw. power plant. The blue-clad laborers (known locally as "blue ants") were promised land in Mongolia, but when the Mongols clearly lined up with Russia, Peking withdrew 14,000 workers. Those remaining stay close to their fenced-in barracks; it is doubtful that any will be allowed to stay on after their contracts expire...
Judging from past experience. De Gaulle's reply will be non; he has refused to return to NATO two divisions that he withdrew for use in the Algerian war, still keeps his fleet out of NATO's Mediterranean defense screen, and prohibits use of French bases for storage of U.S. nuclear weapons...