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Internal Security: To strengthen the Internal Security Act, the Administration will propose that the Justice Department be authorized to 1) use wiretap evidence in security cases, and 2) force witnesses to testify about the acts of others in security cases by granting immunity from self-incrimination (TIME...
...this base they could keep in touch with Thai anti-Communist guerrillas by radio. When the enemy moved up his 316th Division from the southeast, in position to attack either Dienbienphu or Laichau, the French decided to let Laichau go. They evacuated the garrison (using part of it to strengthen Dienbienphu), blew up their installations in Laichau, and left the tricolor flying for the incoming Reds to cut down...
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 9--Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Harvard Law School, decried the public's opinion of the legal profession here tonight and then proceeded to outline a four point proposal to strengthen the Bar Association and its standing in the community...
...most important task for the U.S. in Latin America is to "strengthen our economic relations." This is the main conclusion reached by Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State University and his brother Ike's favorite counselor, as a result of his five-week fact-finding tour of South America. His report, made public this week by the White House, called for adopting stable and consistent trade policies, buying commodities for the strategic stockpile to support prices, making substantial public and private capital loans, expanding Point Four help, considering the revision of tax laws to encourage U.S. investment overseas...
...midst of readying a drastic tax program to strengthen Brazil's new austerity regime, Aranha also successfully fought off an inflationary congressional proposal to pay 145,000 government workers an extra month's salary as a Christmas bonus. "It would be crazy," stormed Aranha. "Brazil is like a family that has no funds but wants to give a luxurious party...