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Checking with Washington. It was not the first time that Western soldiers have been powerless to help a wounded victim of the Grepos. Last December another youth died within a few yards of the British sector line. At the time, freewheeling General Lucius D. Clay snorted: "If that ever happened at the American sector, we would have had that boy out of there in ten minutes...
...where the hapless Boubouroche finds himself. What is worse, he learns that he has been sporting his shameful appendage for eight whole years, since the very beginning of his liaison with his first and only mistress, Adele. Yet even when he catches her lover in the closet, he is powerless to unwind himself from around her little finger. For, as one of the actors puts it in a formally informal prologue to the double-bill, if Law is justice without temperament, Woman is temperament without justice, Entangled in the web of either, Man is equally helpless...
Guide's powerless Cabinet unhappily agreed. Said a disgusted Cabinet secretary as he emerged from...
Last Weapon. The abortive rump session ended Argentina's congressional life for the foreseeable future. Without the right to meet, the Deputies are powerless, and the nation's political parties are equally impotent without the right to assemble. But labor still has the right to strike, and is wielding the weapon. Last week, demanding two months' back pay owed them by the nearly broke government, railroad workers staged a 24-hour walkout. Argentina's General Confederation of Labor has called a 24-hour general strike for this week and another two-day walkout June...
...grudgingly accepted the ban as a necessary means of choking off Castro's dollar supplies. Now that Washington has approved a legal way around the embargo, Tampa cigarmen are wondering out loud whether their industry is being uselessly sacrificed. As explained by the Treasury Department, the embargo is powerless to prevent entry into the U.S. of Cuban tobacco manufactured into cigars in any third nation or its possessions-Spain's Canary Islands, for example...