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Vanishing Guards. At week's end Dag Hammarskjold was clearly fed up with his Congo problem child. Before an emergency session of the Security Council, he demanded more power and a clear field to work unhampered. The facts were, said he, that the Congo is near bankruptcy and total administrative collapse. ''Some [army] units have not got any pay for two months, and they have no food, with the result that they disobey orders and loot from the civilian population." The Congolese army in Kasai province was running wild, "engaged in slaughter not only of combatants...
...part of the inner circle, and ranks not as a maker but as an executor of policy. He is told what to do and how to do it. The foreign ministry strongman is Carlos Olivares, nominally the subsecretary, who is much closer to the Communists. Roa's problem is that he cannot live down the evidence of his earlier independence. A collection of his 1953-58 writings published last year under the title En Pie (Afoot) shows that until recently he was above all antiCommunist. He sneered at the "trained seals of the Kremlin," warned that "it is necessary...
Even before the Los Angeles roar acclaiming Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy, the Houston Post got a hint of the kind of journalistic problem it might have to face. Getting word that an itinerant preacher had hit town with a warning against electing a Catholic to anything from President on down to dogcatcher, the Post reported one of his meetings. Recalls Post Managing Editor William P. Hobby Jr.: "We soon got all sorts of hell from ministers of his denomination." A delegation of Church of Christ preachers, complaining of the deprecatory tone of the Post's story, demanded...
...problem that confronted Houston's Hobby has since perplexed many another U.S. editor, most of all in the South, where the religion issue seems to have aroused the most passion. The often-criticized Southern press generally scores high marks in its wrestling with this delicate issue. How should an editor treat the touchy subject of religion in politics-by avoiding it, denying it, minimizing it or going after...
While the figures seemed to show the jobless problem becoming worse, the Labor Department made its survey during the week when auto plants were shut down for model changeovers, and all the temporarily laid-off workers were counted as "unemployed." Not until the September survey, when these unemployed will be back at work, will the Labor Department know whether the rise in jobless is actual, or merely a statistical distortion...