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...development loans will go to only seven-Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, Tunisia, India, Pakistan and Turkey. Yet even after two decades as a developer, teacher, influence buyer and underwriter, the U.S. still gets surprised in the way aid programs work out. Some triumphs and failures from the ledger...
...excellent example of shotgun justice," wrote Editor James Neal of Hamilton County's Noblesville (pop. 7,600) Daily Ledger. "If the past provides a good example, what will happen is that some kindly little old lady will spend the night in jail for driving too slow while some mad motorist charged with manslaughter will stall his trial right out of court...
Ridiculous. Elected to a six-year term last fall, Judge New has been feeling Editor Neal's needle ever since he took office. The judge demanded publication of the names and addresses of all juvenile offenders and their parents. The Ledger (circ. 7,500) went along at first, then decided the idea was unwise. The judge also decreed that all arrested juveniles be held in the city jail without bond for as long as two weeks pending a hearing. The Ledger called that policy "terrible." Indeed, it led one 17-year-old boy to file a federal writ...
...allay German fears of excessive foreign control, Layton has continued Ford's policy of keeping American influence at "low visibility." Of the 35,500 Ford Taunus employees, only 23 are Americans. To reassure his engineers that he can see beyond his accountant's ledger, Layton picks a new Taunus every night from the Cologne assembly plant, drives it to his suburban home, returns it the next morning with a meticulous check list of complaints and suggestions. Layton's optimism about autos is equal to Detroit's. "The European car market...
...when Martin Luther King led 2000 Negro demonstrators through the streets of Birmingham, the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson Mississippi noted editorially: "Now it's started in Birmingham, with the same familiar pattern. Cynical young men have once again dressed up like old women and managed to get before the fire hoses and police dogs...