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...After a week of ominous silence, the Central Committee delivered its verdict in the ritualistic phrases of Communist inquisition: "Comrade Zhukov has violated the Leninist party principles . . . pursued a policy of abolishing the leadership and control of the party over the army and navy . . . proved to be a politically unsound person, inclined toward adventurism...
...some established agents have expressed their discontent at the combine's ten per cent tariff on their profits, charging that the tax amounts to confiscation. In most cases, however, the complaint is unsound, as it overlooks the fact that the Agency provides them with legal business addresses--something which their rooms in tax-exempt University property failed to give them...
...Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable." Judge Minoru Kamiizumi agreed, set Merten free because the marine "had been drinking whisky for several hours, showed symptoms of pathological intoxication and was in a state of mental unsoundness...
Though approving the board's motives, Allen ruled last week: "The display of an item which cannot be freely explained and discussed is unsound educational practice." He ordered that the Commandments be banned. "If the end result of the display in the school of the Ten Commandments," said he, "is to stir up bitterness and dissension, then it is better that they not be displayed...
Libby's deductions are unsound, untrue and dangerous. Our H-bomb testing is matched by Russia's, and so the race goes on, and will and must lead to war, i.e., to a destruction of our civilization...