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...pawns of all these groups were the students, who poured into the streets denouncing dictatorship and demanding democracy, heedless of the fact that Viet Nam is in the midst of a bitter war, and that even history's most advanced countries have usually found it necessary to suspend democracy in wartime. Furthermore, many students feared that Khanh, with complete power, might end their traditional draft exemptions. Communist agents were plainly instigating and exploiting the situation. Some of the mobs moved in military formations, signaling one another by blowing whistles and beating drums...
...N.H.S. doctors are, overall, low-cost prescribers. The expensive exceptions number only 30 to 40. And they do not get away with it for long. When a doctor seems to be regularly overprescribing, he gets two warnings. Finally, a committee of the doctor's own colleagues may suspend his license. Ten years ago, there were ten suspensions a year. Last year there were none. The overprescribers, Dr. Struthers believes, are getting the word...
...Delhi last week the Indian government confirmed that the Naga armistice will begin on July 26. During that period the Indian government will suspend military operations, reconnaissance flights, imposition of fines on villages that misbehave, and restrict patrolling to a thousand yards from the perimeters of army defense posts. For their part, the Naga rebels will suspend ambushes, sniping, kidnaping of hostages and attacking army posts and administrative centers...
...President of the Republic, under the authority bestowed upon him by Article 10 of the Institutional Act, resolves to cancel the legislative mandate and suspend for ten years the political rights of Senhor Juscelino Ku-bitschek de Oliveira." With that terse statement, the new government of Brazil last week ostracized the country's former President on grounds of corruption and Communist-coddling. The government accused Kubitschek of a wide variety of offenses-land manipulations, accepting kickbacks from contractors, making deals with the Reds for political support. So long as the suspension stands, Kubitschek may not run for President...
...trust of the parental-filial relationship, neither of these gentlemen has any particular qualifications for office, any office; certainly no more than the judge who was once a lawyer who knew the Governor or the commissioner who is a defeated legislator. The Governor can be given the power to suspend all indicted state officials, and the Crime Commission can be given even more money to find the crooks, but this does nothing but increase the rate of turnover in offices. The hacks simply replace themselves, secure in their assumption of public apathy, and resolve not to be so clumsy about...