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Socrates & Democracy. While Squillante was thus absorbed in financial matters, his educational director provided spiritual succor to his suckers. C. (for Casper) Don Modica, a genial cucumber of a man known to his wide circle of hoodlum friends as the Professor, was responsible for a variety of functions. He had once been an instructor at New York University in the philosophy of education. The Professor became private tutor to the children of only the best gangsters, e.g., Squillante's godfather Albert Anastasia, Willie and Salvatore Moretti, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese. (He taught "Socrates to the moderns," but not Machiavelli...
Into Washington came a cry for succor from a kingdom even more distant than Jordan. The supplicant: the royal government of Laos, whose small territory is bordered on the north by Red China, on the northeast by Communist North Viet Nam. Laos' plea: the U.S., along with Brit ain and France, should reaffirm its support of the Laos government against Communist pressure-particularly from the two Communist-controlled provinces in northeastern Laos. Reason: under the terms of the 1954 Geneva agreement which ended the Indo-China War, the two Red provinces were to have been reintegrated with the mother...
...children. More people." Then he fainted. The policeman cranked his old-fashioned telephone, muttered a few words. A siren wailed and within minutes the able-bodied men and women of Rechnitz were mobilized to aid another group of refugees from the other side of the Hungarian border, offering succor, shelter, food, warmth and welcome...
...precisely this policy that demonstrated to the world, In terms of high drama, the U.S.'s traditional adherence to the principles of law and justice. U.S. policy on Hungary was criticized as too little and too late (see FOREIGN NEWS), but nevertheless the U.S. was offering the Hungarians succor and refuge while the U.S.S.R. offered bloodshed and deportation to the steppes...
...Hungary, the U.S. was honor-bound to use every method it knows-economic, social, diplomatic and undiplomatic-to alleviate Hungary's difficulties: not to become disheartened by the seeming futility of bringing moral pressure on the Russians, to do more to isolate Russia as a moral leper, to succor all the victims, to prod and nudge Russia into an accounting and to a halting...