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...thwart that expectation and thus help prevent air piracy, Hubbard believes, is international agreement to send hijackers home at once. His view is supported by the fact that every pirate he interviewed said he would never have committed his crime if he had known he would be returned home at once. He also advocates eliminating the death penalty to make skyjacking useless as an unconscious method of suicide. And he believes that public stress on the sexual inadequacy of skyjackers would make the crime seem humiliating to men who might otherwise find it attractive...
...freeze won't be extended in some way, probably by setting up a policing review board. That's the minimum Government apparatus that is needed." In dissent, Beryl Sprinkel says: "A wage-price review board won't work. There are too many devices to thwart...
...Planning Division that he directed will be shut down. "We're superfluous," says Arazi, 58, a onetime underground fighter and Ambassador to Cyprus. But he says it with a smile. The Political-Economic Planning Division is actually Israel's antiboycott office, set up eleven years ago to thwart the efforts of 18 Arab countries to choke Israel economically. "The boycott does us infinitesimal harm now," says Arazi. "It is so inefficient and ineffective that we simply don't need this division any more...
...Council, State Department Expert Paul M. Kattenburg recommended that the U.S. withdraw from Viet Nam completely. The suggestion was spurned by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; in the months that followed, the Diem coup and the deteriorating ability of the South Vietnamese to thwart the Viet Cong insurgency carried America into a deepening involvement in Southeast Asia. Kattenburg, then head of the State Department's working group on Viet Nam, told the NSC that popular disaffection with the Diem regime, coupled with growing Viet Cong control of the countryside, presented the U.S. with...
...Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). The capital's police chief, Colonel Rogelio Flores Curiel, also resigned. The resignations followed Echeverría's announcement that the city government would be investigated. The Falcons are believed to have been groomed at city expense as a secret army to embarrass and thwart Echeverria's reformist policies...