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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Maurice Challe, De Gaulle's own appointee as commander in chief in Algeria, had assured him that the army was firmly behind a French Algeria; he was told not to take seriously De Gaulle's talk of "self-determination," since it was just "a maneuver to get past the United Nations debate on Algeria." As an intelligence officer, Gardes was in close touch with the leaders of the January uprising, and thought he was speaking the truth in promising them army backing...
...Enemies were saying he was born a bastard and, during World War II, "turned his back on Germany" to become "one of the enemy." To a Social Democratic Party congress in Hannover, Brandt said: "It is true. I have been called Willy Brandt for 'only' the past 28 years." He had adopted the name at 19, when he fled his native town of Lübeck to work with the anti-Nazi underground in Norway. When he returned to Germany in 1945, "little more than the memory of a not entirely easy childhood bound me to the name...
Colombia. President Alberto Lleras Camargo lacks sufficiently assertive leadership to stamp out backlands bloodshed that has stopped development and killed 300,000 in the past twelve years...
Unless Soviet Russia is willing to underwrite a bigger share of Cuba's economy, weapons may be all Castro has before long. Faced with an almost 50% drop in foreign exchange in the past year, the U.S. trade boycott, and the loss of $150 million from the discontinued U.S. sugar bonus, Economic Czar "Che" Guevara flew behind the Iron Curtain last month for help to avert economic disaster. Czechoslovakia agreed to double its aid, bringing the total to $40 million. But estimates are that Cuba needs an irreducible minimum of $250 million in freely convertible currencies this year...
Softened Attitude. Top hospitals like New York's Bellevue which has about 100 foreign physicians, can choose the most promising foreign medical school graduates, who have less difficulty getting past the examination hurdle. The pinch comes in hospitals that have no affiliation with a medical school, need A.M.A.A.H.A. accreditation to attract good U.S. graduates. Six of the twelve foreign-trained doctors in Rhode Island's State Hospital for Mental Diseases flunked the exams, and one New York City hospital faces loss of a quarter of its house staff...