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Fidel Castro's ambassadors on the isthmus are diligently stirring discontent with skillful propaganda, lending films, arranging free trips to Cuba, organizing "Friends of Cuba Associations," befriending labor unions. But so far, his implicit encouragement to revolution has not caught on in Central America. The five nations seem content with the progress that they can see-and the long siestas they still cherish...
...Implicit in De Gaulle's tribute to the British version of parliamentarianism was his longstanding contempt for the system as it is practiced in France. But ironically, in the midst of his triumphal visit to Britain, his scorn had brought his popularity at home to its lowest ebb since he took power...
...South Africa was stunned by the sudden bloodshed that had always been implicit in Verwoerd's unrelenting policies. The English-language Johannesburg Star assailed the government's "pathetic faith in the power of machine guns to settle basic human problems," and the Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg appealed "to all those in South Africa who have any human feelings" to stop the police tactics. More than 500 white students at the University of Natal, carrying banners reading HITLER 1939, VERWOERD 1960, assembled on campus to lower the British and South African flags to half-mast...
...Implicit in the new British position is closer integration with the U.S. defense system-an integration dramatized by last week's announcement that Britain plans to build, largely at U.S. expense, a mammoth radar station in Yorkshire intended to provide early warning of approaching Soviet missiles. When Laborite M.P.s complained that the new station would give Britain only four minutes' warning time v. 15 minutes for the U.S., Air Secretary George Ward made it plain that Britain's warning time was not the only consideration. Said he: By providing additional protection for deterrent forces...
...wait it out, letting the Cuban people, who have a long history of hating totalitarianism, handle their own problem. Amidst signs of Mikoyan's success there were counter-signs that Cuban love of liberty was at work. The student demonstration was a blow at Castro, and the perils implicit as Mikoyan courted Cuba were the topic of many a sidewalk debate...