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...Thailand's 3,000,000 Chinese-nearly 10% of the total population-though they had given no signs of restiveness. "We do not know for certain which ideology they prefer," he said. His real wrath, however, was directed at Parliament, some of whose members-from the gov ernment's own party-had threatened to block the military budget unless the Cabinet doubled their $50,000 annual allowances for vote-winning projects in their provinces. At a jammed press conference, Premier Thanom also complained bitterly that some opposition members had called him and Praphas "whoremasters" and "sons of bitches...
...newspapers of Boston at that time also took to editorializing about the incident. The Boston Courier, which was the paper read by those of the Federalist or Whig disposition, stated its whole-hearted agreement with President Quincy and the Gov- ernment of the University. On the other hand, the Boston Transcript, a Jacksonian paper edited by several recent graduates, put their sympathies with the students. "We have just heard of a new act of the wise men who guide the councils of our Alma Mater. . . ," the Transcript stated, "which threatens to ruin that ancient Institution...
...practice to be "inapplicable in every detail." He quickly dumped it. In 1943, having irritated just about everyone by his zealous performance, he was dumped himself. A year on FORTUNE followed?he credits Henry Luce with teaching him to write?and then it was back to the Gov ernment, first to gauge the effectiveness of U.S. strategic bombing in Germany and Japan, later to work as an adviser on economic policies in the occupied countries. Since 1949, he has been on and off at Harvard...
Another frequently stated point is that the war is immoral because it has had a brutalizing effect on the American people and represents, in the words of Rabbi M. David Weiss of Boston, "a corruption of our national purpose." Stanford's Brown accuses the U.S. Gov ernment of telling American forces in Viet Nam, in effect, that "anything goes. All moral considerations are either subsidiary or suspended for the sake of military victory." Baptist Pastor Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, who only within the past year has joined the dissenters, says that "morally, it offends...
...anywhere in the world. Its vastness stretches from the rugged jungles of Amazonia southward to the plains of the state of Goias, where the sky is so immense that half a dozen thunder storms can often be seen brewing in it while the sun shines. For years, the gov ernment has offered ten-year tax exemptions on some land and various other lures to attract settlers to the country's largely undeveloped interior. The drive has also attracted hundreds of Grileiros (land grabbers), who have come and gone, buying up acreage for virtually nothing. Since Brazil built the city...