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What with the humiliating Congo defeat, the winter's long labor riots and the nation's economic malaise, Belgium was limp, dispirited and hardly in a mood for another round of national elections. Not even the campaign speeches of popular Paul-Henri Spaak. who quit as NATO Secretary-General to take over leadership of the Socialists, could whip up the listless crowds. Spaak's electioneering Socialists blamed Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because...
...Christian candidate for the premiership is tough, freewheeling 47-year-old Théo Lefèvre. president of the party since 1950. In the end, Lefèvre would probably turn not to the Liberals but to the Socialists for help in forming a government. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak himself has ambitions for the nation's top job; moreover, the Socialists insisted that they would not cooperate unless the controversial economic austerity law is withdrawn...
...freighter Henri G., Swiss-owned and registered in Liberia, was far out in the Indian Ocean when a 19-year-old seaman fell sick. He suffered pain in swallowing and could not breathe easily; his tonsils were inflamed, swollen and covered with white spots; glands in his neck were swollen; his temperature...
...Henri G. had a well-stocked medicine chest, and a resourceful officer had used half the pharmacopoeia on the young seaman to no avail. But he had not exhausted his resources: the Henri G. had first-class medical help within easy reach-though 5,000 miles away...
...Keep the patient in bed with absolute rest. Apply linseed poultices continuously on the swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram of streptomycin morning and evening. Give only weak tea, orange juice, mineral water for 24 hours." After two days the Henri G. reported: "Patient seems better this morning. Yesterday evening pulse go fever 102 this morning pulse 70 temperature 98.6.'' More exchanges followed. Finally the Henri...