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Into Washington came a cry for succor from a kingdom even more distant than Jordan. The supplicant: the royal government of Laos, whose small territory is bordered on the north by Red China, on the northeast by Communist North Viet Nam. Laos' plea: the U.S., along with Brit ain and France, should reaffirm its support of the Laos government against Communist pressure-particularly from the two Communist-controlled provinces in northeastern Laos. Reason: under the terms of the 1954 Geneva agreement which ended the Indo-China War, the two Red provinces were to have been reintegrated with the mother...
Eisenhower made a special plea for his foreign aid policy in an off-the-cuff speech to the National Council of the League of Women Voters...
Legal counsel for Krupnick entered a plea of "not guilty" for Krupnick, admitting that the wallet had been examined, but denying the charge of larceny...
When President Eisenhower asked Congress to reduce his budget, most everyone agreed the request was ironic, if not ridiculous. Sinc then, the inherent dangers of the President's plea have become painfully obvious. With the Presidentially blessed banner of budget-cutting waving before them, financial conservatives and international isolationists (usually the same men) have been campaigning to cut the nation's foreign aid and information services...
...spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful, the chin raised with authority and grandeur, the hands held out in eloquent plea and promise, the feet slightly dragging as if in pain, a reminder of the tragedy implicit in the dramatic origins of Christianity...