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...that "administrative snags" caused the delay. The U.S. aim: to make Phoumi and Boun Oum go to Geneva for more talks with the permanent international conference on Laos. But Phoumi was not about to buy a plane ticket for Geneva without a fight. In a belt-tightening measure to safeguard his dollar reserves, he ordered the National Bank of Laos to stop exchanging dollars for Laotian kip. The black market price for the dollar promptly jumped from 80 to 150 kip, and food prices spiraled. He floated rumors of dollar loans from other sources, announced new Communist invasions from...
...This incident." commented the Reporter-News in an editorial, "brings home to us that precautions must be taken even on the local level to safeguard any information the Communists might want." Last week, along with copies of the Reporter-News, Subscribers Mozsik, Petrov and Yashin got a curt cancellation notice from Publisher McMahon: "This, gentlemen, is the last copy of the Abilene Reporter-News you will receive." Just how his move would affect his former subscribers, McMahon did not explain. "I know they can buy the paper on a newsstand," he said. Nonetheless, the Reporter-News will continue to publish...
...addition, there is a feeling among several members of the Faculty that a concerted effort by many universities is the only safeguard against possible infringements of academic freedom and university independence that may follow some Federal aid. "Millions of dollars are involved, and one university alone cannot be effective in dealing with Federal agencies," was one comment...
...explosions if the West were to carry out any tests during the talks, the U.S. made it clear that it would not agree to any uninspected test moratorium until agreement was reached. Said the State Department: "The U.S. will continue to take such actions as it deems necessary to safeguard its national security until a controlled test-ban agreement is achieved." Thus, the Atomic Energy Commission will go ahead with the fifth in its current series of underground blasts, scheduled...
...gravid. Yet his people have virtually no political awareness. The two political riots in the book do not grow out of the book, they erupt into it. In fact, Von Doderer's judgment on his people may be that, ignoring the urgencies of their time, they failed to safeguard the best things in it. But half a million is a lot of words in which to make that point obscurely. One wag has dubbed the book "the Ninth Symphony of Viennese gossip." But it does not resemble Beethoven as much as it does another Viennese, Gustav Mahler. Like Mahler...