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...aimlessly. Finally Chou asked to be taken to the embassy of Red China's newer enemy-the Soviet Union. That happened to be just around the corner. Chou excitedly jumped out, found the front gate locked, and scrambled over the seven-foot concrete wall-leaving behind a startled, unpaid taxi driver. Inside the embassy the Russians were equally surprised. Peking was a "terrible place," Chou said. He had decided to escape from Red China because of the "suffocating atmosphere" of Communism. He was willing to go to Russia, but Nationalist China was really his preference. Somewhat disappointed over their...
...that some 95 embassies, legations and missions are crammed into one of Europe's smallest, most provincial capitals. High-living diplomats do not ease the tensions with their late, loud parties and cosmopolitan ways. But what really throws the shopkeepers of Bonn into a xenophobic rage is the unpaid debts run up by diplomats-particularly those from nations receiving German economic...
...therefore, ironical that Cohn did so much to bring about McCarthy's eventual downfall. The way it came about was that Cohn had a bosom buddy, G. David Schine, the wealthy, not-too-smart son of a hotel-chain owner. Cohn sponsored Schine as an unpaid McCarthy staff investigator. Together, the two went to Europe on a Keystone Cops binge, searching for Communism and mismanagement in U.S. Information Service offices abroad. Soon after their return, Schine made the mistake of getting drafted as a buck private into the U.S. Army. Cohn tried to crowbar the Army into granting Schine...
...have taken part along with some 30,000 Germans. This summer 6,345 Europeans out of more than 20,000 applicants, aged 16 to 25, have given up vacation time to work in staggered two-week shifts near war cemeteries in France, Britain, Luxembourg, Italy and Austria. They are unpaid, get spartan rations, and have to foot up to half their transportation costs...
...Vietnamese. In 1956 she was elected to the National Assembly, immediately began a campaign to upgrade the status of Vietnamese women, who had no legal rights and could be dis carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and?except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...