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...problems there. "In our language this means you get peace for another six months and afterwards have to endure the yoke of Communism." Nor is surrender or U.S. withdrawal the answer. "We don't want to surrender, and we don't want to join the slave camp. That is why each and every one of the 30 million people of Thailand support the policy of the United States of standing firm against aggression." As for bombing North Vietnamese targets: "It is a hard decision to have to resort to force to meet force. But I think the future...
...fighting lasted more than a decade. France sent 20,000 troops to end the rebellion?only to see half of them wiped out by yellow fever and the rest thrown into disarray. In 1804, a former slave named Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti a free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years...
...PITUITARY GLAND. Just about the hardest part of the body for a surgeon to get at is the pea-sized pituitary gland (see diagram), producer of a few master hormones that govern the production of dozens of "slave" hormones. An overactive pituitary causes Cushing's syndrome, some forms of gigantism and adult overgrowth, and some cases of virilism in girls and women. Removal or deactivation of even a normally active pituitary helps some patients with advanced cancer of the breast or prostate, and diabetes victims going blind from bleeding of retinal arteries...
...night at the Café de Paris, five rulers of Europe offered homage at her table-Russia's Nicholas II, Britain's Edward VII, Prussia's Wilhelm II, Belgium's Leopold II and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Otero boasted, "I have been a slave to my passions, but never...
...reconvened in December 1865, the so-called "Johnson" state governments "had introduced the whole pattern of disenfranchisement, discrimination and segregation into the postwar South." Suffrage was restricted to whites; no effective provision was made for Negro education. The new "Black Codes" severely limited Negro rights. Modeled on the prewar slave codes, they permitted Negroes to marry other Negroes (but not whites), granted them a nominal right to own property and in some states bound the former slaves to their farms and employers. In the words of Republican Carl Schurz, the Black Codes were "a striking embodiment of the idea that...