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...indignantly claim the entire Aden region as South Yemen. In response, Britain decided to band the protectorate's pint-sized potentates into a federation. After some kicking and screaming, eleven of the 23 sheikdoms joined up. Next, the British moved to merge Aden Colony with the protectorate to offset the independence agitation. Chief agitator: the city's Trades Union Congress, led by a bumptious, Redlining young airline clerk named Abdullah Asnag, whose slogan runs, "One People, One Yemen, God Is Great...
...United States and the U.S.S.R. terminated the arms race in a draw by adopting a second-strike or purely deterrent nuclear strategy, Piel declared, the result would be clear: "we could offset the reduction in the arms budget by worthwhile and overdue investment in the upgrading of our human and material resources and the enhancement of our domestic existence...
...Brussels, Macmillan's case was damaged by Labor's Hugh Gaitskell; out-Blimping the Blimps, he harrumphed that Britain's admission to Europe would mean "the end of the Commonwealth and 1,000 years of history." Gaitskell's call to arms was partly offset by a Europe-minded group of Laborites who claimed the support of 80 Socialist M.P.s-almost one-third of the party's membership in Parliament. Almost unanimously, the resurgent Liberal Party (see following story) also ranged itself behind the bidding in Brussels...
Griswold said that he is not "undulyenvious" of fields so aided, not does he have any complaints about what the University has done to offset the imbalance. But he suggested that if the University is to accept large sums from the government largely for the support of science, "does it not thereby obligate itself to develop support of somewhat the same order for other fields of learning which do not currently attract governmental largesse...
...imported cotton textiles (which are already saddled with a 14?-a-lb. tariff). But last week the Tariff Commission turned Kennedy down. By a vote of 3 to 2. the commission decided that it would be a bit absurd to establish an import tax to offset an export subsidy which had been established to offset a price support...