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...evasion will be forgiven? An act of compassion and mercy now, however well-intentioned, might cost the country its freedom at some time in the future. And while amnesty might reconcile one group, say the opponents, it would embitter many Americans. Healing some wounds, it would exacerbate others, they contend. Senator Taft can attest to the bitterness of those who oppose amnesty. He asked one protester what should be done about draft evaders if his plan is rejected. The answer: "Shoot them...
...Postal Service contends that second-class rates have been artificially low for decades and that magazine mailers must pay both direct cost and a share of the service's general overhead. Magazine publishers are willing to pay more; LIFE in August proposed 60% over five years. But the industry argues that the proposed new rates are grossly unfair because they do not take into account the ease with which magazines can be handled; many are now presorted and sacked, requiring only minimal processing by postal employees. The publishers contend therefore that too high a proportion of Postal Service overhead...
...would not like to contend that the Indians had a deliberate plan to do that. But once these passions of war and success in war are set loose, they tend to run their course. It is my conviction, based on our intelligence reports as to the forces that were working in the Indian government, that they would have gone on to reduce once and for all the danger that they had consistently seen in Pakistan. We have no military assistance to India. The Soviet Union, of course, is indispensable to India. Under the circumstances, we, in communication with the Soviet...
...having difficulty scraping up funds to get his 1963 Chevrolet repaired. "The main thing we've learned," says Borah. ' is not to believe automatically that the so-called experts know what they're talking about." Their latest target: a proposed Mississippi River bridge that they contend would dump an impossible traffic load onto the city's placid uptown streets...
...inconclusive territorial disputes that altered little and allowed both sides to claim victory. This time, though, the Indians felt they were fighting for a moral cause. Pakistan's army in the East, moreover, was cut off by Indian air and naval superiority from the West, and had to contend with a hostile local population as well as the combined forces of the tough Mukti Bahini guerrillas and a numerically superior and better-equipped Indian army. Despite the brief duration of the war, the fighting was fierce. The Indians alone reported 10,633 casualties-2,307 killed, 6,163 wounded...