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Last week as LeMay testified under oath before a Senate Armed Services Sub committee, chaired by Missouri's airwise Democrat Stuart Symington, the capitol rushed to man its security defenses. Symington's committee submitted all of its questions to LeMay in advance. In advance, LeMay wrote out all his answers for the next day's session. In all-night conferences, both questions and answers were reviewed at the Pentagon by an Air Force task force and by a high-ranking Navy security specialist. Of the 153 questions asked during two days' hearings, LeMay answered...
...ruled large areas of Viet Nam as a feudal fief. The threat was characteristic of Ba Cut's fanatic life. At 17, hot-eyed Ba Cut swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting the Viet Minh. The Geneva conference gave half of Indo-China to the Viet Minh, but Ba Cut refused to accept the decision, swore he would never cut his hair until Viet Nam was reunited...
Cried Author George R. (Storm) Stewart, professor of English at the University of California and veteran battler against California's regents' loyalty oath: "I am walking out. I will return to the University of California, where I shall inform my colleagues that the action you have taken here is tyrannous. I shall also tell them that they should wear their censure proudly as a badge of torture given by a tyrant." Added Frederic Heimberger, professor of political science at Ohio State: "As a member and loyal supporter of the A.A.U.P. for 25 years, I am shocked and dismayed...
...miles off France's Brittany coast, regard both doctors and tax collectors as meddlesome nuisances. For three hard-lived centuries the Senans have paid no taxes; between last November and February they sent five doctors packing, each with his faith badly shaken in both humanity and the Hippocratic oath. Restless Paris Doctor Jean l'Haridon, 35, wartime resistance fighter and onetime Boy Scout, hoped to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessors; he saw He de Sein as a new world to conquer. When he heard that the island was again without a doctor, he volunteered his services...
...broke up their meetings. He broadened his appeal, organized affiliates for peasants, youth, workers, professionals. He preached only discontent, "throw the rascals out." As it wore on, his campaign grew vaguer. "My program is to have no program," he declared. He put up 819 candidates, made each take an oath never to take a position not approved personally by Poujade under penalty of "all the punishments reserved for traitors." What punishment did he intend? "Very simple, hanging," said Poujade breezily, and grinned...