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...calculate the amount of back pay that the U.S. might owe him: he reached more than $30,000, then quit figuring. In fact, he was considerably short-changing himself because he assumed that he was still a first lieutenant, not realizing that his promotion schedule rolled on in absentia. His back-pay total will thus probably come closer to $50,000. "I just couldn't believe that I was a first lieutenant and now I wake up a major, like a modern Rip Van Winkle," said Rowe, now 30. Presumably the $20,000 in extra pay will provide some...
...campaigned from Madrid, where he has lived since last August after completing his six-year jail term for stealing government funds. In absentia, he won a Senate seat, a position that will allow him to return home with im munity from civil suits. Eleven of his followers, moreover, have been elected Deputies to Venezuela's lower house so far. Some voters said they voted for Perez Jimenez because in the old dictatorial days, Perez Jimenez' police goons belted the bandits before they had a chance to rob anybody. Under the new democratic regimes, there seems to be more...
...Japanese Government Wednesday decorated David F. Cavers, Fessendon Professor of Law, for his contributions to Japan's culture, education, and social welfare. He was one of 57 Americans honored in absentia as part of Japan's centennial commemoration of the Meiji Restoration...
...week sentenced to death the entire ten-mem ber leadership of the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces, a group of South Vietnamese intellectuals and professionals formed three months ago with the announced intention of bringing peace to Viet Nam through a coalition government. They were tried in absentia; all of them had slipped away during or after the Tet offensive...
...Kalamazoo, Mich., to head 150 other volunteers in Costa Rica. His wife stoutly enrolled their five children in native schools, went to a missionary clinic to have their sixth. Enslen says that "such service whets your appetite for more." Kalamazoo agrees: last fall the voters elected Enslen in absentia to a municipal judgeship that he has since returned to fill...