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Soon Aleksei takes to drink, battle-scarred and bitter because his wartime honors are withheld by Stalinist officials who cannot believe that any trustworthy Red could have survived a Nazi prison camp. He will have to fight for what is due him, says Sasha. "Against whom?" rages the former hero. "In the war, we knew who our enemies were. Who? Who is guilty? What's happening to us? Are we lying to each other? Are we splitting with the party? I am a man, dammit, and I need the truth!" At local party headquarters he tries...
...recount he called for took 60 workers two days to complete, and cost about $1600. Thomas J. Hartnett, executive secretary to the Board of Election Commissioners, said yesterday that certificates of election, which had been temporarily withheld, will now be mailed to the successful school-committee candidates...
...students, whose names have been withheld, are also expected to come to Cambridge and apologize to Dean Watson for their action...
...airport, reading a long farewell statement, she referred to the fact that the U.S. had encouraged the coup: "Judas has sold the Christ for 30 pieces of silver. The Ngo brothers have been sold for a few dollars." By this Mme. Nhu meant the aid that the U.S. had withheld from Diem but restored "to those who would not hesitate to turn their guns against their own duly elected leaders." She had heard reports that, after being murdered by South Viet Nam's new rulers, "President Ngo Dinh Diem's face was serene in death, and my husband...
Although no one could begin to make a case that the hospital had deliberately withheld treatment, it seemed clear what had happened. As a Northerner I was infuriated by the whole thing, and wanted to make it the central point of the speech I was to give that night. When I spoke of this to my Negro partner he replied with a lesson I have had to relearn every day this summer. "It won't mean anything to these Negroes," he said. "This is the kind of treatment they have received all their lives. An incident like this...