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...palace, Council Chief Rafael Bonnelly formally reconvened the Council and announced: "I am the President of the Republic and of the Council of State." He accepted the resignation of Balaguer (who had prudently taken asylum in the residence of the papal nuncio), and then came the cheers, the backslaps and embraces. The only foreign diplomat invited to the celebration: able young (40) Charge Hill, representing...
...determine that Henry I was the leading sire of illegitimate children among British monarchs (at least 20, by six mistresses), they consulted twelve volumes of peerage records. And when all else fails, they turn to an army of volunteer assistants, including a mathematics expert lodged in Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum...
...people, but under the treaty loophole held onto New Guinea, on the ground that the Papuan inhabitants are ethnically, linguistically and religiously different from the Indonesians and (claimed the Dutch) do not really want to belong to Indonesia. The Dutch also held that New Guinea could serve as an asylum for some 200,000 Eurasians of mixed Dutch and Indonesian blood who might not wish to live under Indonesia's new rulers...
...coincidence only 13 elected governments have finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash for asylum in the Mexican embassy in Quito, thus paving the way for a leftist takeover and plunging his country into a crisis similar to Jãnio Quadros' abrupt flight from Brazil...
Congratulations and thanks for the cogent article calling attention to "that phenomenal revolution in society, the foster home" [Oct. 27]. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum is one of six child-care institutions merged during the past two decades to form our agency...