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...Raise income taxes and crack down on its flagrant tax-dodging (and in the case of three smaller nations, enact so far neglected personal income-tax laws). Bringing collections up to U.S. standards would produce an extra $2 billion a year for development...
...outs, said he, would be "a decent, logical, common-sense element of our own legal foundations, of our Constitution." Police in New York and Detroit, slum-ridden cities singled out by Lee, were aghast. Sit-outs, said Detroit's Police Commissioner Herbert W. Hart, would be treated "as flagrant violations of the law, and everyone participating would be arrested for obstructing traffic...
...President himself called for a meeting of the United Nations' 82-member Disarmament Commission to counter last month's flagrant Soviet walkout from disarmament talks. But the chief tough talker was Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who sharply answered the Soviet threat to provide rocket protection for Communism in Castro's Cuba. "Do not touch us," snapped Lodge. "Do not touch those with whom we are tied. Do not seek to extend Communist imperialism." And when Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov flew...
While Rhee did his belated pruning, Huh Chung energetically set about repairing the wrecked machinery of Korean government. Former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was arrested for his flagrant falsifying of the March 15 election, confessed that in accordance with a Cabinet decision, he had collected the written resignations of all Korea's mayors and police chiefs before the elections, and told them their resignations would be accepted unless "they secured victory for Rhee and Lee Ki Poong." But he credited the national police director with the plan for "stuffing ballot boxes beforehand with 40% Liberal votes." Then...
...Israeli shipping. Seizing upon a small incident on the Syrian border last month, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion launched Israel's first reprisal raid since the 1956 Sinai invasion, blasting and leveling a Syrian village in a demilitarized zone. The U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission called it a "flagrant violation" of the armistice, "contrary to elementary humanitarian principles." President Nasser evidently thought it was more than that-the kind of muscle-flexing that preceded the Sinai invasion...