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...dispute may end before the NATO Council, where Britain and France can point to the fact that Germany has been contributing less than 4% of its gross national product to the Western military effort compared with 9% for Britain, 7% for France, almost 12% for the U.S. To add insult to injury, as tax-weary Britons noted last week, Bonn's latest budget proposal includes a sweeping tax reduction that will eliminate income taxes completely for some 3,000,000 Germans...
Marcos Péerez Jiménez made his biggest blunder by getting himself "reelected" President in a me-or-nobody plebiscite last Dec. 15. This cynical insult to the nation's honor drove air-force men to try a New Year's uprising. That revolt was crushed, but it touched off a rapid sequence of plots, civilian riots and student demonstrations that reached their inevitable climax last week...
...reflections on his distinguished brood. "Sir Hugh." said he, "was always considered the slightly out-of-step hearty in an intellectual menage . . . Several times when he was six or seven he went off, and we found him with the gypsies on the downs -hardly distinguishable from them." Then, adding insult to injury, father Foot remarked that "anybody can be an M.P. or governor of Cyprus" and hailed a recent book on Jonathan Swift by son Michael as "the summit of the Foot family's achievement...
America has need of friends abroad, but the brutal shooting of a poverty-stricken, scrap-picking Japanese woman by Private William Girard has made enemies instead. Insult has been added to injury now that Girard has become the recipient of that modern legal farce, the suspended sentence. Girard not only has got away with murder, but he has cost Uncle Sam precious good will...
...Jackson Daily News, bushy-browed old-style columnist (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and prying reporter ("I may be a lousy editor, but I can still do a damn good job of reporting"), who was always ready to back up his razor-edged wit and deadly personal insult with well-worn fists; of cancer; in Jackson, Miss. Though he was a lifelong foe of Negro-baiters ("hysterical rabble-rousers and spouting demagogues"), and scathingly attacked the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Representative John Rankin and Governor Paul Johnson, Sullens was himself a confirmed opponent of desegregation, waged a bitter...