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Died. Gordon Persons, 63, reform-minded Alabama Governor from 1951 to 1955, who in July 1954 put notorious Phenix City under martial rule after his candidate for attorney general, Albert Patterson, was murdered for pledging to stamp out vice, spent the rest of his term cleaning up the town; of a heart attack; in Montgomery...
...mounting rapidly against the well-meaning but often heavyhanded four-man military junta - even within the military. Three weeks ago, after the junta decreed a series of stiff tariff increases, Guayaquil merchants went on a seven-day protest strike, immobilizing the country's industrial capital. The junta declared martial law, sent in troops to end the strike, and packed some 70 people off to jail, including two key air force officers who apparently sided with the civilians. The situation is not likely to be eased by forecasts of a 40% drop in 1965 banana exports because of increased Central...
...least partially the result of normal spring exuberance. While the head-banging went on, he coolly continued a leisurely cruise aboard a government navy boat inspecting offshore islands. Though he reinforced the police with troops, at week's end Park had still seen no reason to declare martial law. Instead he simply closed down the nation's universities for a while...
...Subsequently convicted by court-martial, the English-born Lee died in disgrace and degradation four years later. He was no kin to the Revolutionary hero "Light Horse Harry" and the other famous Lees of Virginia...
...fundamental programs" of the academy. But if changes are made, they will come far too late to help any of the cadets involved in the scandal. Those who simply failed to report the cheaters will probably be given honorable discharges; the exam salesmen may be subject to courts-martial and dishonorable discharge...