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Security Risk. Ladejinsky lost his job with no warning or explanation. He was in Washington for a temporary mission on Nov. 1 when, under a new law, all U.S. agricultural attaches abroad were transferred from the State Department to the Agriculture Department's jurisdiction...
...into law last week a bill making divorce legal in Argentina for the first time in the nation's history. The next day, the official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, printed its first denunciation of Perón & Co.'s running feud with the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.). In its front-page attack, the paper charged that by arresting priests the Perón regime had violated freedom of religion, and that by legalizing divorce it had subverted "the morals of the faithful...
...astonishingly beautiful sister of Egypt's ex-King Farouk. Fawzia had no son, and Princess Shahnaz, the only child of that marriage, is barred from succession by Iranian law. Since the death of the Shah's brother, Prince Ali Reza, in a plane crash last month (TIME, Nov. 15), there is no heir to the Peacock Throne of Persia...
...Angeles Times and Mirror. The price was only enough for the News to pay back wages and back federal taxes. McKinnon had expected to get $500,000 in new money from a group headed by Robert K. Straus, a member of the family that controls R. H. Macy (TIME, Nov. 8). But last week Straus and his group backed out. In Los Angeles, the death of the paper was good news for Chandler's money-losing Mirror and Hearst's ailing Herald & Express. They are left to battle alone in the city's afternoon field...
Formerly, Government agencies were virtually required to grant a contract to a U.S. bidder if his bid was no more than 25% above that of a foreign bidder. Although the Administration has already lowered this percentage informally, on occasion (TIME, Nov. 29), the new regulations officially set a new differential of less than 10%. Under the new order, a domestic bid can be thrown out in favor of a foreign company if 1) the domestic bid is more than 106% of the foreign delivered price (including tariff, freight in the U.S., etc.), or 2) exceeds the delivered-price foreign...