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...would judge Peking's professions of peace. The principle was "nonrecourse to force." Hours later Chou replied in a speech that for him was almost moderate: he called no one a bandit or warmonger. The old demands were reiterated-for U.N. membership and an end to the trade embargo-but alongside them was a hint that Peking might be ready to "enter into negotiations with the responsible local authorities in Formosa." There was no question of Formosan independence, Chou insisted. But "conditions permitting, [the Communists] are prepared to seek the liberation of Formosa by peaceful means." "Peaceful means...
...membership for Red China: "It must not be forgotten that the country in question has a population of 600 'million and that one out of every four persons living on this globe is a Chinese." He demanded that the U.S. dismantle its overseas bases and quit its embargo on trade in strategic materials with the Communist empire...
...viewed the battle on Bunker's Hill through field glasses from his post in Roxbury, but he resigned his commission in a huff and later departed for London. Gilbert Stuart, then 19, got away in the spring of 1775 aboard the last ship to escape the embargo in Boston Harbor. John Singleton Copley, best portraitist in the colonies, was a Tory sympathizer who left Boston in 1774, never returned...
...seven years since Washington put a ban on the sale of war-useful materials to Iron Curtain countries, there has been many an attempt to evade the embargo, chiefly by foreign firms. Last week Washington revealed the first case involving a major U.S. firm: the Commerce Department had caught Willys-Overland Export Corp. in a deal that landed 100 of its jeeps behind the Iron Curtain...
...charges that the government failed extensively to analyze the vaccine prior to releasing it for public use, and that the present spot-checking procedure is inadequate cannot be fully substantiated until after the pending congressional investigation. Nonetheless, even the half-heartedness of the response to this week's embargo--many states and cities ignored it--shows the insufficiency of federal control over manufacture alone. Conflicting rumors, semi-panic, and misinformation which have prevailed, make centralized Federal jurisdiction mandatory during the emergency...