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...last August, Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman immediately dispatched a message into the jungles (TIME, Sept. 16). Its net: if Communist terrorists still holding out after nine years of costly guerrilla warfare against the British would lay down their arms and forswear Communism, they would get a full pardon. Those unwilling to give up Communism got the offer of free passage with their families to Red China. Rahman gave the rebels until year's end to accept his "final" offer...
...Congress to lift the present $275 billion limit on the national debt. Increased military expenditures, decreased revenues and difficulty in cutting back nonmilitary spending have made the request all but inevitable. Said a White House aide last week: "We're right at the brink-you'll pardon the expression-of going over the debt limit. We're within a very small margin now, and have a very small cash balance." Treasury Secretary Anderson has assured congressional finance committeemen that he can hold out until Congress reconvenes next month. Capitol Hill, in turn, believes that, after appropriate howls...
...Star returned presently, having put on shoes and a black unbuttoned sweater over her snug dress. You'll have to pardon the way the room looks," she said, "we had a kind of brawl here last night. A party." She walked out, motioning me to follow her into a smaller room across the hall...
...happy ending to this tragedy? Graham found his naked Mrs. Fraser, liberated her and was rewarded by a ticket of leave, i.e., conditional pardon, and ?10 for his trouble. Happiest of all, Mrs. Fraser and her rescuer were not misled by the romantic situation into any foolish notions about marrying, but blithely went their separate ways. Mrs. Fraser left Australia almost as quickly as she could put on some clothes and Graham followed as soon as he was allowed to take off his leg-irons...
...them, and the state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists might pray pardon for their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal to protect the Scots on the frontier. Virginia Anglicans might ponder whether their failure 350 years after Jamestown to number more than a fraction of the Baptists and Methodists in that state is not due to their reluctance to admit...