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...difficult enough. Tshombe is afraid of going to Leopoldville, fearing for his safety, and for prestige reasons Adoula is reluctant to meet Tshombe elsewhere. The terms of an agreement, once a meeting is arranged, will present an even more difficult problem. Even if Tshombe agrees-in effect at gunpoint-to join a Congo federation, the specific degree of each province's independence must be worked out, including the question of who disposes of Katanga's income...
...return. Many self-employed professional men keep no records of income; businessmen often keep two sets of books. Brazilian tax experts estimate that Rio de Janeiro's merchants alone cheated the government out of $1.9 million last year. Out in the country, big landholders drive off revenooers at gunpoint, never pay a cruzeiro. According to the taxmen in Buenos Aires last week, if all Latin Americans should start paying taxes scrupulously, their governments would rake in another $3 billion each year...
...offer no resistance." As they approached Havana, the escorting F-102 turned back. Electra Copilot John Yandell got the pirate's approval to ask Key West for the Havana airport frequencies, and managed to slip in a quick warning: "This is an emergency. We are being forced at gunpoint to fly to Cuba...
...they say, need be concerned with how a defendant is brought before it but only with giving the accused a fair trial. In 1883, a U.S. citizen named Ker was traced to Peru, where he had fled to escape being tried for embezzlement. A U.S. agent kidnaped Ker at gunpoint, brought him back to the U.S., where he was tried and convicted. Peru might conceivably have a grievance against the U.S.. ruled the U.S. Supreme Court, but the defendant had none. To those who question Israel's basic right to try Eichmann at all, Israelis say that...
...their wives and girl friends after a hard week of maneuvers, heard the U.N. orders echoing over the lake from a loudspeaker, jumped to the conclusion that a U.N. force was about to arrive to disarm them. Rushing over with rifles, the Congolese held the twelve startled Tunisians at gunpoint, took their weapons and then departed to warn their superiors of the U.N.'s "intentions...