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...prisoners of war and civilian internees must be surrendered within 30 days to the proper authorities, "who shall give them all possible assistance in proceeding to their country of origin, place of habitual residence or zone of choice...
When their fellow Europeans left them in peace, the people of Flanders, Celtic in origin, were kept busy fending off the onslaughts of a still more implacable foe-the grey, pounding rollers of the North Sea, which time and again broke over Flanders' beaches to flood the low-lying flatlands behind. From earliest times the people of Flanders were forced so often to seek refuge with their northern neighbors, the Frisians, that they came at last to be known as Vlaming, the Frisian word for refugee. Their land was Vlandria, land of the refugees...
Like most careful physicists, Dr. Schein does not like to speculate about the possible origin of antiprotons. It is quite possible, says he, that remote stars may be made of "reversed matter," whose atoms have negative antiprotons in their nuclei and positrons (positive electrons) revolving around them. There would be no way to tell; the reversed matter would send out the same kind of light as ordinary matter. It would behave itself normally as long as it stayed at home. But if particles from an antiproton star should wander into a region, like the earth's atmosphere, where...
...listing includes only those houses which agree that they will admit students regardless of their race, creed, or national origin...
...days later Nehru defined the war in Indo-China to his own satisfaction: "The conflict is in its origin and essential character a movement of resistance to colonialism." Nehru rounded off his oration by saying the U.S. threatened the peace of Southeast Asia. He had nothing to say about Red China...