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...been through the years; last year alone the feud took 40 lives. Recently, however, Mexico State Governor Salvador Sánches Colin proposed a solution: the state will pay San Simón 50,000 pesos for the 350 acres and cede the land to El Guarda. With a sigh, the elders of both villages agreed...
...Ministries of Home and Education distributed a new Rhee ukase demanding that "married monks should repent their past and become laymen." The badly frightened family men, who claim that Buddhist priests have been marrying for 300 years, met with representatives of the protesting faction of celibates and offered to cede them the top temple priesthoods and move their families out of the priestly residences and into village quarters. At week's end the unmarried 700 were still insisting on out-and-out expulsion...
...concentrate on progress, not recriminations. We decided that arrangements were possible whereby episodes such as this one could be avoided in the future. About 10:30 this evening I contacted Michael H. Jorrin '55, Film Chairman of the HLU, and we agreed to the following joint statement to super- cede earlier statements that might have been made during the day. Earlier statements, though made, do not represent our present feelings...
...will continue to be the aggressors. But it does not follow that in all parts and phases of that struggle the U.S. and its allies should accept a merely passive, defensive role. Not all of the fight need be under circumstances chosen by the enemy. The policeman need not cede to the criminal all decision as to the pace and place and nature of the struggle...
...Dutch cede them sovereignty over West New Guinea. The Dutch had countered with proposals for 1) a plebiscite among the colony's primitive Melanesian tribesmen, 2) a New Guinea Council with Indonesian representation, 3) a condominium under The Netherlands-Indonesian Union, 4) continued negotiation through the U.N. Last week, on the conference's closing day, the Indonesians rejected all halfway measures: "We cannot accept the continuation of Dutch administration in West Irian ... a territory which in our opinion is a part of our country." Two days later Minister Rum flew back home...