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...Paul Scoon, meanwhile, became in effect a one-man local government, backed by the authority of U.S. guns. He acted decisively in severing all diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and Libya, ordering them to close their embassies. He directed that the Cubans retain only one diplomat on the island. The three embassies were guarded by U.S. troops. Officially, this was for the protection of the diplomats. Privately, a State Department official in Washington admitted, "We don't want them rattling around the island...
...Once you've had the experience of teaching students--and being stretched by students--it's a reward that you wouldn't want to forfeit. And that's why I've been eager to retain the possibility of teaching students," Peretz explains...
...actual event came as a shock to the three Democrats on the six-member U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. On Tuesday morning, in fact, they had expected pleasant news. The Senate Judiciary Committee seemed likely to approve a bill that would extend the commission's life and retain all its present members, including themselves. But hours before the committee was to meet, the White House gave Mary Frances Berry, Blandina Cardenas Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman a totally different message. As expressed in a letter hand-carried to Berry's office and signed by Personnel Assistant John...
...controversy over tax-free bonds, however, is not so clear-cut. The bill has been rewritten several times, and it appears as though colleges will retain their ability to sell bonds to pay for construction projects. However, bonds which finance student loans remain on the endangered list, according to the bill now stalled in committee...
...basic principles and superiority of the socialist system and about the bright Communist future . . . some turn a blind eye to anti-Marxist and antisocialist ideas." Even today, continued the anonymous critic, "some party members . .. openly violate regulations and discipline, sabotage state plans, vio late state economic policies and illegally retain taxes and profits...