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Last week, with Israel's technical machinery at a virtual standstill and with the nation's health in peril, the government had no choice but to make a token sur render. Seizing on a compromise offer from the strikers, it agreed to give them two-thirds of their promised pay raise now, and the rest within three years. Within twelve hours, the government announced that it was also considering increases for all workers...
...rented their grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token of respect...
...come into the picture after the presence of token allied contingents has dramatized the western powers' repeated guarantees to the Israeli state. The U.N., which is responsible for the creation of Israel, and for years has been debating the control of armaments, cannot let the peace of the world be threatened by the armament race between minor countries entirely dependent on the great powers. Since no atomic stockpiles are involved, there could be no better experimental ground for U.N. control of armament-just as there could be no better chance for us to stop the bootlegging of minor wars...
...Gentile" men, women and children were ruthlessly killed by a troop of Mormons. The Civil War interrupted the Federal Government's prosecution of the case, involving 36 suspects, and by the time the war was over, the Government was ready to compromise and accept one Mormon head in token payment. Brigham Young chose Lee. In 1870, Lee was excommunicated from the Mormon Church. Insulted with impunity, he still kept his chin up, and when Bishop Roundy "shook hands & said, You are [now] as Rough as an old Grisley, I replied . . . Every Dog will have his day & a Bitch...
...brothers would have ever been convicted. There has never been any precedent for the optimistic belief that a Mississippi jury would give White justice in a Negro murder. Most observers were skeptical about the possibilities of conviction, and, in any case, the men would never receive more than token sentences. Local police, as it turned out, soon found themselves unable to identify the body of the slain boy. (Mr. Halberstam's statement that the NAACP could have used "its own resources to pin down the identification" is both illogical and irrelevant...