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...second council, about 100 years later, heard a plea by some monks for relaxation of discipline, which foreshadowed a great split in Buddhism. At the third council, about 244 B.C., it was decided to send out missionaries to other countries; and at the fourth, in the 1st century A.D., the big split crystallized. It divides the Buddhist world to this day between the traditional Hinayana Buddhists, who look upon Buddha as a human teacher, and the more recent and increasingly influential Mahayana Buddhists, who worship him as a divine being...
Taruc's Final Plea...
...difference in other surrounding circumstances. Thus, as Dean Griswold states, a man who refuses to state whether he has killed another is not necessarily guilty of crime, because he may have done so in self-defense or by accident. But if he bases his refusal upon a plea of possible self-incrimination, the inference is plain that he did kill the man. He would not be entitled to the privilege unless...
...chief with the means to carry on." It would send to Indo-China several more battalions of troops, crews and mechanics for 25 bombers, and two flotillas of naval craft, plus artillery, tanks and machine guns-but still no conscripts. Then he came to the crux of his plea for support: "I refuse to believe that at the present hour this Assembly intends to provoke a rupture of the negotiations . . . What other policy [than ours] do you propose? Some people seem to rely more upon our enemies than our friends, and it has become fashionable in certain quarters to complain...
...real reason for the purchase, of course, was to vote the 800,000 shares in favor of Bob Young at the Central's annual meeting May 26. Last week New York Supreme Court Justice James B. McNally turned down the Central's plea for an injunction to block the Texans from voting the stock on the ground that the sale violated an ICC order. Unless the Central can find new legal objections, it looks as if the Texans will be able to vote the shares, which constitute about 12% of the total, and bring Young...