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Body For Sale
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 16.
There was a buyer here today for the life of Satoshita Horita,
22-year-old the frustrated Japanese who offered in Tokyo on Tuesday to "sell out" for 70,000 yen $195 in American money.
Mr David Segal, owner of Radio Station here and KOSI in Denver, said he would bail Horita out of debt if Horita for one year would wear T-shirt bearing the inscription:
"In Kansas City It's KUDL, |
KUDL
Hority has not yet been in-
In Denver it's KÖSI-America's formed of the offer. beat"
would
Mr Segal said he furnish a half-dozen T-shirt and would make payment in nny form Horita specifted,
"All I need is his shirt size," Mr Segal said.
Horita had parked himself at the side of a busy Tokyo street with a placard round his neck which read: ** sale for 70,000 yen."
body for
He found passers-by either curious and unwilling to buy or willing to buy and too curious.
Horita told reporters he had
Red Officials received two offers.
"I instinctively sensed he was crooked" he said about his first
• client,
Fail Tests said he would not tell me
what he needed me for until I signod contract. I did not like that and refused." London, Dec. 17.
The second prospective buyer Communist literary told Horita he wanted him by a cadres (officials) were baker for "work at night." found to bo extremely "But the bad part came after Ignorant through a simple that, Horita said, "He told me intelligence test conducted must be at his complete dis
position, cbey every order and by the East China Cultural | even have a finger cut off as a Bureau, says the Commu- token of my obedience."
nist Chinese Literary Gazette, a fortnightly from Peking.
TOO CHEAP .
Horita confcased that from now on he might have to be less particular about who bought him.
Over 70 per cent of the cadres did
tho know
Party's ...tot agricultural task according to
He said he had changed his the general line" during the
read: "transition period" the periodical placard which originally
This We for sale." Police sald
way toc "cheap. i thought this cadres regarded He took their advice and ad- Urumchi (capital of Sindang vertised his body Instearl.- Province) as the name of a United Presa & China Mai! President of some country, while | Special. others said the Central American Republic, Guatemala was the
Somo
nome of a person.
Over 50 persons gave a wrong answer to the question "What are the three countries in Indo- China?" (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos).
Literary units were blamed for taking no leadership in the codires' studies.--China Mail Special.
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Washington, Dec. 16.
A Defence Dépártment source said today that the Administration is reviving its once. scrapped plan to cut military manpower to about 2,800,000 by mid-1957.
divisions.
the
States
Such a drastic slash would be in line with the Administration's position that the threat of global atomic war has diminished, permitting a smaller military force for the long pull of the cold war.
Also in the background are the facts that Administration is faced with ■ $3,000,000,000 budget 'deficit in the coming fiscal year and the military repre-
sents one of the biggest areas for economising.
The Defence Secretary, Mr East, where the United Charles E. Wilson, gave the has one Murine and three Anny
ip-off that the Administration had turned once again to plans During the past year, for cutting military manpower Army division: have been with- strength when he said last drawn from the Far East, meat-
ly relieving the Army's forces
burden. power to "come- thing less than the 3,047,000-
When the old plan of reducing scrapped to 2,816,000 men was by
lart Sumner, Dr John A. Hannah, then Assistant Defence Seerotary for Manpower, said
oppraisal was because a new showed "we are going to require more men than contemplated" in the Far East.
night that the active mga
would be reduced man gure to be reached" next June 30.
A
LEVELLING OFF
repre-
ave
man-
He sold that defence planners "originally gured we would be able to pull a good share out of the Far East."
The 3,047,000-man figure previously had been set as the levelling off point aller batilo by the Services agatnať a long-range plan to στις military strength 2,815,000 by mid-1957. The 3,047,000 senta 210,260 reduction from current strength and 500,000 from what it was when Pre- sident Eisenhower took office.
The decision to revive the old 2,815,000-man objective WA3 reached only
enly in
12000 days. It at was reached
a time when defence officials were complet ing a military budget for the The sources did not elaborate
fiscal
year
the
ton- on what the temporary that
ditions were, manpower
but at the time strength would be continued at the Indo-China war was reach- the 3,047,000 level.
ing a crisis and the Administra- Revival of the plan portends | tion was considering the non- further re-deployment of ability of intervening.-United American troops in the Far Press.
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on
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plan of the old Was based on temporary conditiort and that the Administration DOW safe in revlying 11,
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