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...taken prisoner was considered to be out of the war. Often enough, he was killed on the spot; if he lived, he was often mistreated. As far as his superiors were concerned, he had proved himself on the field; they were happy if he did not defect to the enemy. But in this century of total war, the prison camp has become an extension of the battlefield. Totalitarian nations are not content merely to extract information from a P.O.W. They often hound and harass a man for months and even years in order to win his mind and soul...
...tier system has worked well so far, but its future is imperiled by a fundamental defect. When central bankers decided to let the marketplace set the price of gold for speculators, hoarders and industrial users, they also agreed to stop buying and selling the metal except to settle debts among nations. Thus the world's monetary gold stocks were artificially frozen at $40 billion. But nations' appetites for gold have grown stronger, and their trust in paper currencies has become weaker. In the past year, these countries have changed the percentages of gold (as against paper money...
...Guardia in both appearance and personality. In 1947, noting that Sāo Paulo (and indeed all Brazil) was sadly deficient in art, he proclaimed, "A nation without art is backward and barbaric," and set out to remedy this defect...
...realize that is two field armies? They send those boys down south and they never come back. And they're doing no better in the war." One U.S. observer insisted that Hanoi can rely on only six of every ten men sent south to fight; the rest defect, including an even larger number of North Vietnamese civilian administrators, or melt into the jungle. The growing rate of defections, moreover, leads to better allied intelligence-a major factor in recent months in blunting Communist offensives...
...specialists as Dr. Digamber S. Borgaonkar, head of the chromosome laboratory at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Just last week, a lawyer for Sean Farley, a 26-year-old "XYY" New Yorker charged with a rape-slaying, maneuvered to raise the issue of his client's genetic defect in court...