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Congressmen and other critics have proposed a variety of retaliatory schemes. Among them: shaming De Gaulle by bringing home from French soil the remains of 60,501 U.S. soldiers who died defending France in two wars, demanding that France repay more than $4 billion in World War I debts (which France and other European debtors except Finland ceased paying in 1932), swamping France's lucrative grain-export markets with American wheat, or putting a tax on American tourists to France. These are the kind of ideas that sound attractive-until one remembers that France, too, has great retaliatory powers...
...Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has just reversed all the convictions, as expected. But the redress was unexpected. In an action brought by the Justice Department under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the court not only ordered the county to repay fines collected from the defendants and to expunge all notation of the arrests and convictions from the records; but, most unusually, it also ordered the county to pay all costs incurred in defense of the baseless charges, including "reasonable" attorneys' fees...
...panel proposes that the repayment of government loans be based on the student's salary after graduation. Thus, a student earning more would repay more than a student earning less who received the same loan...
...Many of Reston's starkly modern town houses proved too costly ($35,000 to $47,000) to lure buyers. In an effort to assure full occupancy of the 15-story apartment tower that makes Reston a symbol of urbanity in the boondocks, rents were set too low to repay the mortgage loan. As Gulf took over, Vice President William L. Henry estimated that Reston would need an injection of $12 million more cash by 1970 to move...
...student who had borrowed $4000 and who obtained a job paying, say $15,000 the year after he graduated might wish to avoid a 40 year commitment that would take a substantial portion of his income each year; he could elect to repay at once the entire $4000 plus six per cent interest...