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...time and take some of the steam out of the OAS, advised Castro to back his words with evidence. Said a spokesman: "We have consistently maintained that there are two elements that are not negotiable-Castro's ties of dependency with the Soviet Union, which are tantamount to Soviet domination, and the continuance of Castro's promotion of subversion elsewhere in the hemisphere...
...twelve counts of supplying FDA with "false, fictious and fraudulent" data. After first pleading not guilty, the companies and the executives switched their pleas to nolo contendere (no contest) on eight counts. After Federal Judge Matthew M. McGuire made sure that each defendant understood that the new plea was "tantamount to a plea of guilty," the Justice Department dropped the four remaining counts. It is now up to Judge McGuire to fix the sentences. For the companies, fines could total up to $80,000; the individuals face both fines and prison...
...Your statement [Nov. 8] that Negroes "have been shut out of My Fair Lady" is stupidly misleading. Pointing out that there are no Negroes in My Fair Lady is tantamount to complaining that there are no Hungarians in The Mikado...
...such a rethinking indicates that defeat of the South Vietnamese government would be tantamount to victory for the Chinese and mortally injurious to essential American interests in Asia or elsewhere, the United States should commit itself to whatever effort is necessary to overcome the Vietcong soon. If the reappraisal indicates anything less than Chinese hegemony following a Vietcong victory, the test of whether U.S. troops continue fighting for Saigon should be whether they can be withdrawn by the end of 1965, beginning on a regular schedule at the end of this year. This might open the field to the Vietcong...
...Lords or Commons, prompting the crack that the denobilized earl is "a Home without a House." In the Commons facing the Prime Minister's empty seat, Labor's Harold Wilson thundered that postponing Parliament's next session to suit Douglas-Home's convenience was tantamount to treating M.P.s like "awkward or refractory tenants" and constituted a "very serious tampering with the rights and duties of the House." Sir Alec (as he prefers to be known) merely sat out his first showdown with Wilson in 10 Downing Street and refused to budge...