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...Stand On. In Taunton, England, one-legged Steelworker Howard James Challenger, 22, charged with breaking and entering the home of his former landlady, was acquitted after the jury accepted his story that he only wanted to reclaim the false leg he had left as security on unpaid rent 18 months before...
...still isolated in their caves), Ho struck for power. "General offensive on all fronts," Viet Minh Military Order No. 1 proclaimed, and Ho's men in black, emerging in cohesion from jungle lairs, received the surrender of many Japanese and their arms. A French commissioner, parachuting down to reclaim the colony, found himself stripped seminude, and under arrest. But Ho's victory was not to pass unchallenged...
Application must be made in the usual manner, which requires ticket cards and the brown envelopes Students are advised to enclose checks instead of each with their requests to prevent loss of money beyond proof of reclaim...
...have been equally telling. He decreed that some 300 state-paid employees now on loan to predominantly Communist unions of government workers must go back to work for the government itself. He threatened to remove state backing from the Red-ridden Italian film industry. When Scelba set out to reclaim some 1,300 pieces of confiscated Fascist property now occupied by the Communists, he effectively quashed Red objections by urging that the reclaimed properties be turned into badly needed schools. Last week the new Premier made plain his identity with the West by urging Italians to ratify EDC without waiting...
...reclaim these, the Pope advised parish priests to find help among laymen "capable of multiplying the strength and capacity" of the clergy. There is no other solution, he said, "but to build the world anew in the spirit of Christ...