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Aiding Taxpayers. Shortly before divorcing him last fall, Andrade's first wife charged him with nonsupport. He pleaded guilty, and the county recommended probation. But Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Joseph A. Sprankle took a firmer view: "I am concerned about all the children this man is producing without the ability to support them." He gave Andrade a choice: marriage to Elma Martello and sterilization by vasectomy-or jail...
Resubmitting a paper without permission had never been explicitly prohibited in previous years. The new ruling--contained in the "Regulations for Students in Harvard College" distributed at registration--will provide a firmer basis for disciplinary action than has previously been available...
...toward unconstitutional governments will, as in the past, be guided by the national interest and the circumstances peculiar to each situation as it arises." This approach echoed the pragmatism Mann has been preaching since he took over the Latin America job in January. But now the tone seemed somewhat firmer in its suggestion that the Johnson Administration expects to employ greater flexibility and possibly more muscle in U.S. dealings in Latin America...
...relations reached a rare high point. The nagging, century-old Chamizal border dispute on the Rio Grande at El Paso, Texas, was amicably settled last year, and the Kennedy visit in 1962 brought vivas and warm abrazos all around. But the U.S. would still like to see a firmer stand by Mexico against Castro's Cuba...
...Communism, and at considerable risk to his own political future allowed Guatemala to be used as a training base for the Bay of Pigs invasion. In the common effort to resist the spread of Castro Communism in Central America, the U.S. had and has no stronger supporter or firmer friend than President Ydigoras Fuentes...