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Aware that the White House meeting was about to take place, and probably anticipating Taylor's recommendations, the North Vietnamese and the Chinese Communists had already started bawling charges that U.S. planes were bombing Communist installations in the so-called neutralist buffer zone between North and South Viet Nam. And hardly was the White House meeting over than the Soviet Union started squawling about how the U.S. was "playing with fire" in even considering a step up in the Vietnamese war effort...
...much even for the sizable United Party, which basically backs apartheid but differs with the government on how it should be carried out. United Party Leader Sir de Villiers Graaff warned that the bill would alienate middle-class Africans living in the cities, who form an important buffer against the angry black underground. Verwoerd's Nationalists were unimpressed. Revolution, they figure, is unlikely in a country that spends 27% of its budget on security...
Died. Jigme P. Dorji, 45, Premier since 1955 of Bhutan, mote-size (18,000 sq. mi.) Indian buffer state in the Himalayas, who with his brother-in-law, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, brought Bhutan boldly into the 20th century by abolishing slavery and polyandry, joining the Colombo Plan, building hospitals and the first road to the outside world; by an unknown assassin's bullet, as he sat in a resthouse at the Indian border post of Phunchholing...
...government's financial position in higher education is now irreversible, he declared. To safeguard against "irrelevant political intrusions," the British have established a University Grants Committee, a non-political group which allots government funds, he said. Robbins reported that his study committee had recommended continued use of such "buffer committees" in allocating new state subsidies...
Harvard may buffer a letdown after two tough weekends in a row--first the Princeton much and then the national championship--out unless the Crimson goes fintter than sonny Liston tomorrow, the match will be interesting only for its effects on several personal and team records...