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...Dwight Eisenhower, who carefully ticked off the so-called hardheaded reasons for foreign aid, e.g., the setback to Communist imperialism, the increase in U.S. military security, the improved U.S. economic position through expanding trade with aided countries. Then the President tore into the foes of foreign aid who would dismiss it with the contemptuous phrase that it is a do-gooders' scheme...
Wang is apparently having difficulties with the immigration officials. He has a chance of being deported as undesirable, but whether he is forced out of the country or actually gets into politics, society cannot simply dismiss him. What he represents has always been a danger to democracy. In meeting the danger in the open, free men have often found their greatest strength...
...from the colonels made last September, asking for an anti-Communist government of democracy, constitutionality, law and order. After two weeks of discussion, the conferees decided on their tactics. They would form a counter-government headed by Sjafruddin. and send an ultimatum to Acting President Sartono, demanding that he dismiss the "unconstitutional" government of Premier Djuanda and ask former Vice President Mohammed Hatta to form a national government of antiCommunists...
...refuses help leaves the.company little choice but to discipline him by short layoffs or eventually fire him. Says an executive of California's General Petroleum Co.: "We're inclined to treat alcoholism as an illness, but if a man won't help himself, we have to dismiss him." Many unions still hogtie such programs-by shielding alcoholics or creating a fuss when it becomes necessary to dismiss them, but more and more companies are winning active union support for their programs...
...area of Palestine that Jordan had annexed after the 1948 war, outnumbered the original Bedouins of King Hussein two to one. When Nasser called to them, they erupted into the streets, hurling stones at U.S. consulates, attacking U.N. warehouses, battling police. Last year Nasser-incited riots forced Hussein to dismiss Britain's Glubb Pasha, and at the sprawling refugee camp at Aqabat Jabr (pop. 32,000), some 100 were killed...