Word: officialdoms
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...week's end, as reconnaissance planes droned ineffectively over the bloodstained jungle around Luluabourg, Belgian officialdom was hopefully awaiting the reaction of Congolese politicians to Schrijver's timetable for independence. But to outsiders-and to many Belgians as well-it seemed doubtful that any timetable, however reasonable, could ward off the chaos that was descending upon one of the world's richest colonies...
...months, a smoke screen of evasion, misstatement and carefully calculated confusion had been thrown over the case of four U.S. sergeants on trial in Turkey for black-market dealings in currency (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.). Last week despite officialdom's best efforts, the smoke screen began to lift...
...Tokyo officialdom, Japan's 800,000 "resident Koreans" have long been unwelcome guests who contribute more than their share to Japanese crime and unemployment statistics. But to Soren, the Red-lining General Federation of Korean Residents in Japan, the Koreans are unwilling exiles. Loudly insisting that at least 120,000 of the Koreans in Japan yearn to go to Communist North Korea, Soren has repeatedly demanded mass repatriation as "a basic human right." Last February, after the North Korean government grandly chimed in with an offer to take in all of Japan's Korean residents at once...
Most hopeful of all, public enthusiasm for the Common Market far outstrips that of officialdom. Since last January at least 15 specialized magazines and reviews devoted to the Common Market have sprung up; so has UNICE, a Common Marketwide counterpart of the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers. And throughout the Six, industrial amalgamations and alliances are being negotiated at a dizzying rate. Italy's Alfa Romeo has signed car-marketing agreements with France's Renault and Germany's N.S.U. Daimler-Benz (Mercedes) is negotiating with Peugeot, and France's Conord (household appliances) has already...
...move has been made to change Italian law in line with the ringing declaration of the 1956 congress. And that congress recommended dropping the word "leper" because of its incrustation of moral connotations, substituting "leprosy victim" or "leprosy patient." But Italian officialdom has changed in neither word nor deed: Marcello Orano, hero of 1941, is in 1959 nothing but a leper...