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...jungle. He drove his men mercilessly, refused to be stopped by mounting casualties or dwindling food supplies, seemed determined never to be conquered. Then one day he simply wandered away, stripped off his uniform and headed for the police. Fearing that the news of his surrender might somehow imperil their efforts to persuade other terrorists to give up, government officials kept it a secret. Only last week, on the eve of Malaya's first anniversary of independence, did they let the story...
...Wilson has long promised to take newsmen on a chaperoned tour of the test center, about the only outsiders who have been allowed inside the gate have been local politicians. However, the Air Force has not yet restricted picture taking from the nearby public beaches; nor do news pictures imperil security, since the most vital secrets of a missile are locked in its guidance box, deep in the bird's skin...
...Warren's opinion, held: "We do not now conceive of any circumstance wherein a state interest would justify infringement of rights in these fields." Wrote Warren in a 300-word aside on academic freedom: to "impose any straitjacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our nation...
...pointed out by Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh. Would the fund's easy terms undermine the businesslike hard loans that both the Export-Import Bank and World Bank are trying to make the basis for sound international development? "Soft" loans, Waugh told the Senate committee, could "imperil the status of any loans made on a strictly banking basis." Also missing from the plan was any proposal for legislation to encourage private investment abroad...
...find some good things to say. We'll self-criticize ourselves into self-liquidation." Despite Gomulka's election victory, newsmen do not expect him to lift press curbs for some time to come, since, as he explains, Poland must move carefully if the nation is not to imperil its hard-won gains. But Polish journalists, having tasted freedom, are still getting stones past the censor that would never see print in any other Communist country. One sure proof of their effectiveness is that the Polish press is being denounced in Pravda...