Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ayub spoke plainly on his view of the long-festering problem of refugees along the Israeli border, where more than a million Palestinians-those who fled or were ejected by Israel, and the children born to them since-still inhabit squalid detention camps in Jordan, Syria and the Gaza Strip. The Arabs have let the U.N. look after them, arguing that to provide the refugees with permanent homes and jobs would seem to be acquiescing in the existence of Israel. Ayub remarked pointedly that after partition, his own Pakistan made room for 9,000,000 Moslem refugees from India...
...solved the problem of Communist terrorism. A fortnight ago an American police adviser was gunned down in broad daylight on a main road near the sea resort of Cap Saint-Jacques; he was one of the 800 soldiers and civilians who fall to the Communist terrorists every month in South Viet Nam. Three weeks ago emboldened Viet Minh guerrillas struck into South Viet Nam by way of chaotic Laos, engaged Diem's army in pitched fighting for a week. Pleading the Communist threat, Diem has ruled with rigged elections, a muzzled press, and political re-education camps that...
...changed her mind, decided to give Kennedy's Administration a one-year trial before making any plans for expatriation. Reason: "Some of my friends who are also very close friends of Senator and Mrs. Kennedy have told me that they are both sympathetic and understanding toward the problem of world population...
...dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition-and about 80% of these were either mystery-plotting hacks or vulgarizers of other works. Moaned he: "Who will deny that in this domain, statistics lead to the absurd? The problem of true writers would not have been resolved. There are many who, in order to live, must ply a second trade." In his own second-trade capacity as a Cabinet minister, Writer Malraux made a painful decision: No writer, good or bad, will get a pension next year...
...Yale Law School's Dean Eugene V. Rostow is "seriously considering" a lottery to pick evenly matched applicants. In culling 250 entrants from 1,200 applicants, Yale Law has no trouble choosing 80 from the superior "A group." Problem is selecting 170 from the remaining "B group," all of them with equal marks. "Interviews only give you impressions," said Rostow. "I myself have no faith in my ability to interview an applicant and necessarily come up with the best prospect. Choosing them by lot would probably be fairer...