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Threat Carried Out. "I had no idea what Burros might or might not do," says Phillips, who was taken out of town under police guard after the Klansman phoned the paper alternately threatening to kill the reporter or "wipe out" the Times. Shortly after the story appeared, Burros did carry out his threat of violence-but on himself. After storming around Frankhouser's apartment in Reading, Pa., and demolishing a bedstead with a karate kick, he shot himself to death with a pistol...
Recently in Phu Bai a Navy doctor paused in the midst of treating a long line of village children to wipe his brow and expostulated: "Dammit, if we could just get these people to wash their kids off with soap and water, half of the cases we're treating here today wouldn't be sick." A marine corporal near by listened and nodded. Next day five marines, four washtubs and a bag of towels pulled into Phu Bai in a Jeep, and an assembly line was soon set up. One by one the village's toddlers were...
...Nasakom. To Indonesians, long accustomed to President Sukarno's friendship with Peking, it seemed odd indeed that Red China could be so viciously maligned. There was nothing really odd about it, for the anti-Chinese campaign simply marked the determination of the army under Defense Minister Nasution to wipe out all traces of Aidit and his Partai Kommunis Indonesia. Nasution would probably succeed, for he and his generals seemed in firm command of the country...
Labor has never flagged in its determination to wipe 14(b) off the books and thus demolish the remaining state right-to-work laws. Its main argument is that 14(b) undermines union security by allowing nonunion workers to get a "free ride," but that argument is weakening in a day when labor itself enjoys greater acceptance, wealth and influence than ever before. Opponents of repeal argue that labor is so powerful, in any case, that union security hardly hinges on getting rid of 14(b). Most important, they insist that compulsory unionism goes against the ingrained American idea...
...which gives it sovereign control "in perpetuity" over the canal and a five-mile strip along either side. The new treaty, explained the President, will "effectively recognize Panama's sovereignty over the area of the canal." In fact, when the treaty is signed, probably next year, it will wipe out the old concept of the Canal Zone as a U.S. bastion in Latin America...