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...deal harshly with the pilot of the U.A.R. jet who swooped helplessly down to an emergency bellylanding near Amman after reconnoitering along Jordan's frontier. But the Syrian lad who climbed out of the cockpit seemed too young to be shot, too honest and helpful even to punish severely. Instead, the Jordanians decided that Lieut. Adnan Madani, 24, would make a useful propaganda weapon to embarrass Gamal Abdel Nasser. By trotting Madani out as a "defector," Jordan could "prove" that Syrians were unhappy in Nasser's U.A.R...
...first assassin, attacking the life of a moderate Socialist leader, had no relations with a rightist group, and except for his hatred of the Zengakuren, he committed his act in a schizophrenic fit. The second attacker, aiming at Kishi, had no intention of killing him, but wanted merely to punish the prime minister for having "clumsily handled the problems of the Liberal Democratic Party." The third incident differed from the previous two in that the youth had undertaken the act out of a genuine political conviction. Obviously, the governmental party had nothing to do with this tragic event. Nor does...
Mark Mirsky is another writer whose work could have been represented more plentifully. Shkootz is an anecdote about a rabbi who must punish a little boy who scribbled a swastika on the Sunday School wall. Mirsky's prose is full of fire and yet maintains a reserved dignity. Only once does the writing seem to go out of control, for I don't understand the important passage explaining the rabbi's cry of "Shkootzim, shkootzim" at the children who had perpetrated the evil deed...
...majority of publicly owned U.S. companies are dead set against even a hint of conflict of interest, punish it severely when they discover...
...Soviet aide phoned to ask if the meeting was a preliminary one or a summit meeting. If preliminary, Nikita would come; if a summit, he would not-unless, of course, President Eisenhower was prepared to apologize publicly and abjectly for the U-2 spy plane and to agree to punish the guilty. After an hour of fruitless telephoning, a tight-lipped Charles de Gaulle decided to end the farce. He wrote out the Western reply: "Mr. Khrushchev's absence was registered, and General de Gaulle took note of it. In these conditions, the discussions that had been foreseen could...