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...bombed North Korean airfields to document an important fact: no Red jets were based south of the Yalu. Since then Russian-made jets have swarmed into North Korean bases. The truce terms specifically forbid all such buildups, but by last week this and other Red violations had become so flagrant that the U.S. and the United Nations Command decided to scrap the futile pretense of truce inspection and supervision...
...next April's general elections, despite Geneva's insistence that everyone gets a vote. The commission's Indians, Canadians, and Polish Communists backed up the Democrats, and cautioned King Norodom not to violate Geneva (which the Communists have already violated in half a dozen more flagrant ways...
Seven undergraduates were put on a month's probation for "flagrant violation of University and Cambridge parking regulations," Dean Delmar Leighton revealed yesterday. The seven, who are juniors and seniors in good academic standing, had received at least eight and in some cases 12 tickets apiece for illegal parking during the past academic year...
Millre declared the action barring Oppenheimer "an egregious insult to a great scholar" and "a flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of intellectual integrity and liberty of spirit upon which the education system of a free society is erected...
Terence S. Turner '55, vice-president of the H.L.U., said last night, "The sense of the motion was that the violation of international law (the Chinese illegally convicted soldiers in uniform of spying) was so cynical and flagrant that we could not afford to neglect our moral responsibility to deal with the situation as a matter of principle; which would mean going along with the U.N. to the farthest degree possible before we took a unilateral course such as is now contemplated...