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Thus the voter registration worker has a 12 hour day, seven days a week. For him, the freedom house is a place to sleep and grab a bite to eat. The Freedom School teacher has a very different life...
Adoula, then helped lead a Tshombe-backed plot to grab the eastern Congo. Rebellion was nothing new in the Congo, but the latest turn in Stanleyville brought French Ambassador Jacques Koscziusko-Morizet hurrying back to Leopoldville from consultations in Paris. Asked by his chauffeur why he had returned so soon, the ambassador shrugged, "Because of the situation." The chauffeur nodded sympathetically. "Things are pretty bad in Paris?" he asked...
...also gathered in Tokyo; over strong objections from the Latin Americans, Filipinos and Iraquis, they approved a plan by which the bank will try to arbitrate expropriations of foreign-owned properties. Despite such accomplishments, the most dramatic development in Tokyo was a dispute-a barefaced attempt by France to grab the lead in world monetary markets from the U.S. and Britain...
...Sugar Plums. The Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei raises no such phantoms. The real danger, he believes, is the Communists, who will inevitably grab power if Allende is elected. His campaign is based on a well-reasoned program of land reform, more manufacturing industries, more technical schools, slum redevelopment, and stronger government regulation of Chile's mining industries. But he is not for nationalization, and he is not dispensing sugarplum visions to Chileans. "I'm not going to promise you miracles," he tells them. "What I do offer is constancy. I am with...
Aside from his desire to live in the West, Tung brought with him 72 pages of notes on Chinese Communist intentions in Africa. "What they care about is the Congo," Tung told reporters. "Mao Tse-tung has said: 'When we can grab the Congo, then we can grab the whole of Africa.'" To find out just where Mao plans to close his fingers, the State Department last week invited Tung down to Washington for some serious talk...