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...Bangkok this week, the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (which claims part of Sabah) hope to lay the groundwork for a possible tripartite "summit" session later this month that would bring together Indonesia's President Sukarno, Malaysia's Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal. But in view of Indonesian President Sukarno's un relenting "Crush Malaysia" campaign, there was widespread doubt over the chances of ending the bitter four-month feud. In London, where the U.S. Attorney General stopped off en route to Washington, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home...
...caused. He called for a meeting of 34 African foreign and defense ministers in Dar es Salaam this week to consider "the implications for African unity and our nonalignment policies of the happenings in East Africa." A longtime booster of East African federation, Nyerere hopes to lay the groundwork for a mutual defense agreement that would eliminate the need for non-African help in putting down future insurrections...
...make instant, front-page news, the European Common Market has only to cut a tariff or cry "Yankee chickens, go home!" What goes largely unreported is its statesmen's cautious groping toward the political unity for which economic integration is the essential groundwork. Last week, just one year after Charles de Gaulle abruptly scotched Britain's bid to join the Common Market, France's partners were once more engaged in an earnest attempt to bring Britain into an outward-looking, integrated Europe. Highlights...
Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, granddaddy of the nation's selective service system (he helped lay the groundwork in 1936, became director in 1941), was aware of-and worried about-the problem. Early this year he put staff members to work, and they recommended that married men would be an easily identifiable group to excuse from service without seriously hurting U.S. military manpower needs...
...case against pornography is stated by Fanny herself: its greatest offense is tedium. She begins her second letter saying: "I imagined, indeed, that you would have been cloy'd and tired with the uniformity of adventures and expressions, inseparable from a subject of this sort, whose bottom, or groundwork being, in the nature of things, eternally one and the same...