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Latin America's Job. The development of Latin America is basically Latin America's job, and the Latin Americans know it. Says Rio's Correio da Manhd: "We are far from doing the most possible for ourselves. We flee with horror from fundamental problems." Latin America could...
...First the Japanese overran Nanking in 1937 and put a $100,000 price on his head. His long exile in the U.S. ended after World War II. He returned to China, was made an archbishop in 1946. Three years later, the Communists overran his diocese and he had to flee again. In exile in the U.S., the bishop spent his energies helping Chinese in the New World and raising funds for the refugees on Formosa...
...French troops tied up along the electrified Morice Line, but rebel breakthrough attempts are costly and seldom successful. Inside Algeria, rebel units that in early 1958 were big enough to fight pitched battles with crack French outfits are now reduced to 30 or 40 men apiece, and religiously flee all contact with French troops. The French boast that there are now nearly 50% more Moslems (160,000) fighting for France than for the F.L.N. rebel forces...
Hoping to catch the assassins before they could flee the country, security agents closed down Venezuela's ports. To reassure the nation that he himself was all right, Betancourt showed himself to the press. His face was scorched, his fore head was peeling, his swollen lips were smeared with healing jelly, and his eyes behind his dark-rimmed glasses were puffy. But he waved his bandaged paws cheerfully, and within hours was back at Miraflores Palace...
...list of suspected Communist sympathizers. When Democratic Party Assemblyman Suh Min Ho called for an investigation, the government soon hustled him off to jail on hastily trumped-up charges. When the Assembly persisted and dispatched an investigating committee to Shinwon, the legislators were ambushed en route and forced to flee for their lives. Posing as an expert, Colonel Kim blandly identified the ambushers as "Red guerrillas." For the sake of its own good name, the Korean army in December 1951 court-martialed Colonel Kim. At his trial, the "guerrillas" who intercepted the legislators were proved actually to have been...