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South Viet Nam's military, including General Khanh, last week announced their backing of the Huong government???a setback for the Buddhists. But at Tam Chau's Buddhist secular institute?a ramshackle compound that has been the Buddhist base ever since laymen, fed up with politicking, chased the political monks out of Saigon's modern Xa Loi pagoda?the mimeograph machines and rumor mills were still grinding away against Huong...
...from the Marine Corps in 1959, Oswald went to the Soviet Union and demanded U.S.S.R. citizenship. He expressed his feelings about the U.S. in a letter to Robert Pic: "In the event of war, I would kill any American who put a uniform on in defense of the American Government??? any American." At one point, when the Russian government was threatening to kick Oswald out of the country, he slashed a wrist in an abortive suicide attempt. The Soviet government purportedly took pity, allowed Oswald to stay on, got him a job as a metal worker in Minsk, where...
...Hero of the Corridor to Poles last week, the President-elect was expected to do everything from letting down U. S. tariff bars in favor of Polish goods to recognizing the Soviet Government??? with which Poland has recently signed a friendly pact of nonaggression...
Inquisitor Seabury is in the extraordinary position of representing all three branches of State government???judicial, executive, legislative. In the first capacity he has had eight policemen indicted, sent six others to prison, removed two magistrates, sent three scampering off under fire. In his capacity as the Governor's representative to hear malfeasance charges against doddering District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain of New York County, Tammany Sachem, he had not, up to last weekend, reported his conclusions. As the Legislature's agent he was pressing his queries into the political machinery of sprawling Queens Borough, and even into...
...also conducting the State Supreme Court's investigation of the city's judiciary and Governor Roosevelt's hearing of malfeasance charges against District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930). Mr. Seabury was thus placed in the extraordinary position of simultaneously representing all three branches of State government??? legislative, judicial, executive?as inquisitor of the first city in the land...