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The U.S. agreed last week to sell the Chinese Government 130 million rounds of surplus rifle ammunition. It had been made expressly for the Chinese Army's 7.92-mm. Mausers ("Generalissimo" model) in Lend-Lease days, but never delivered. For months it had rested in U.S. West Coast dumps...
The graves were in a mound, one of two dozen on the outskirts of Nebaj, at the end of a winding new road, ten hours from Guatemala City. The local Indians, descendants of the ancient Mayans whose bones rested below, make daily sacrifices of flowers and incense before the mounds...
So rested he by the schary tree,
Chicago Poet Carl Sandburg's admiring comment was: "And on the seventh day he rested."
With that, the prosecution rested its case. This week Judge Martin ruled that the statements could indeed be admitted as evidence-but only as each one applied to the man who made it. He dismissed all charges against three defendants, reduced the charges against seven others, leaving 21 on trial...