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...After the Communists and the French had started their Indo-China shooting war in 1946, he formed a resistance movement against them both; it never amounted to much. The French offered to back him as head of a provisional government at one stage, but they balked when he demanded dominion status for Viet Nam. Finally, amid the bloody fighting, Ngo Dinh Diem packed up and left with an older brother, Ngo Dinh Thuc, a Catholic priest, for a trip around the world. Reaching the U.S., Diem paused to rest and meditate at Maryknoll Junior College in Lakewood, N.J. While there...
...Trust has given away $157.8 million mostly to found Washington's National Gallery of Art and to educational and civic rebuilding projects concentrated in Pittsburgh during the last three decades. Among the various family trusts blooded by Andrew W. Mellon, the largest is Son Paul's Old Dominion Foundation, which has given more than $22 million to his alma mater, Yale...
Prince Edward County, Va., a tobacco and wood-pulp center in the heart of the Old Dominion, is the only county in the U.S. without a single operating public school. The county was one of the localities involved in the original Supreme Court desegregation case, and for nearly two years, local officials have kept the 20 Negro and white schools closed in defiance of the court order. Last week the Department of Justice filed a motion in Richmond to force the rebellious county to reopen its schools on an integrated basis...
...also imposed total censorship on all news reports about the troubles, the claim was impossible to verify. But it was clear that the widow's chief concern was for the views of the Singhalese majority, whose votes had elected her, and who, through the years of British dominion, had been eclipsed by the better-educated Christians and the more industrious Tamils. And those who had mistaken the widow's campaigning tears for womanly weakness were having dry-eyed second thoughts...
Although the settlers claim that this federation is necessary for economic reasons, Banda insisted that "once they clamped their federation on us, they would be able to get dominion status, and then we would be in the same place as South Africa...