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...dander up, Moss also fired off a five-page report on the sergeants' case to Air Force headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, and in Washington, requesting an investigation "of the highest order." i.e., by Congress. Noted the report flatly: "It is against American law, both military and civilian, to obtain confessions by force, brutality or torture . . ." Then, driving to the heart of the matter, Moss wrote that before the sergeants' arrest, the morale of U.S. forces in Izmir was high, but now "service men here [feel] that they are being let down by their own civilian national representatives...
Today nine women are serving in Congress, three as federal judges. Twelve of the government's 60 assistant prosecutors are women. The chief of the Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Maria Cristina Salmoran de Tamayo, 36, has about 150 men working under her-including her own husband. A woman, Maria Lavalle Urbina, runs the federal prison and parole board; Francisca Dolores Valdes de Lanz Duret is president and manager of Mexico City's good grey daily, El Universal. In Mexico City alone there are more than 225 women lawyers; across the nation there are over...
...ancestral mansion in Providence, he turned his attention to all sorts of packages, greeting cards, phone calls. It was his 92nd birthday. Bachelor Green, an infantry officer in the Spanish-American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans to run for re-election next year. Gazing at his questioner piercingly, Senator Green showed a flash of indignation, gave a tart reply: "If you don't mind my saying so, it is a foolish question...
Last week the problem in New York City was attacked on two fronts: an angry report by the American Jewish Congress on de facto segregated schools, an exciting new effort by the city's board of education to uplift such schools...
...increase riles the American Jewish Congress, which offered solid evidence in its 57-page report that the segregated Negro and Puerto Rican children are as much as three years behind in their studies because of sagging morale and poorly qualified teachers. Equally discouraging is the ironic fact that New York is the only Northern city with a real blueprint for solving de facto segregation...