For the Record

Congress may recess a lot sooner than predicted, possibly within the next two weeks. Only important order of business is Senate-House conference on foreign aid bill. Latest reports are that foreign aid appropriations (as against authorization) will be $3 billion—or less. … Sen. Dodd, in famous blast at Senate Democratic leadership, also gave it to the GOP: “… the opposition has become … so weak, so decadent, so fallen, so anxious to curry public opinion, that it does not say what it should be saying. “… State Department, faced with possibility that two of its officers, including one Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, might be brought up on perjury charges in Otepka case, has “accepted their resignations.”

UN investigation of Buddhist persecutions in South Vietnam won’t be pressed under the circumstances, but it might be noted that Abdul Rhaman Pazhwak, of Afghanistan, who headed the group, abstained four years ago on the vote condemning Red China for the persecution (including murder) of 50,000 Tibetan Buddhists. … Afro-Asians so irate over U Thank is finding that the “Portuguese Government is not opposed to the principle of self-determination [in its African territories]” they may well call Security Council meeting to reject the UN’s own report.

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Congress may recess a lot sooner than predicted, possibly within the next two weeks. Only important order of business is Senate-House conference on foreign aid bill. Latest reports are that foreign aid appropriations (as against authorization) will be $3 billion—or less. … Sen. Dodd, in famous blast at Senate Democratic leadership, also gave it to the GOP: “… the opposition has become … so weak, so decadent, so fallen, so anxious to curry public opinion, that it does not say what it should be saying. “… State Department, faced with possibility that two of its officers, including one Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, might be brought up on perjury charges in Otepka case, has “accepted their resignations.”

UN investigation of Buddhist persecutions in South Vietnam won’t be pressed under the circumstances, but it might be noted that Abdul Rhaman Pazhwak, of Afghanistan, who headed the group, abstained four years ago on the vote condemning Red China for the persecution (including murder) of 50,000 Tibetan Buddhists. … Afro-Asians so irate over U Thank is finding that the “Portuguese Government is not opposed to the principle of self-determination [in its African territories]” they may well call Security Council meeting to reject the UN’s own report.