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Crowded Streets. Continuing skirmishes in the capital failed to root out stubborn-and embarrassing-pockets of Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the honeycomb hovels and alleys of the Chinese quarter of Cholon. But Communist resistance had slackened to the point where Saigon resumed relatively routine patterns. Nightmarish traffic again snarled streets nearly empty for two weeks, and patrolling soldiers no longer had the wary, Gary Cooper glint in their eyes...
...civil war" on local Viet Minh and Communist infiltrators from Thailand, who are raising havoc in Battambang province, and accused the Communists of tying up with the subversive Thai Patriotic Front to cause trouble. Normally a soft-pedaler of anti-Communist alarm, Sihanouk finally seems to have, recognized the root of much of his trouble-at least until he changes his mind again. Already besieged by North Vietnamese troops who use his country as sanctuary, he now faces a second Communist threat. The Prince attacked the "global strategy of Asian Communism," crying: "We are being driven into...
...Britain in such large numbers that Britain's white population, including the large population of Irish immigrants, is both alarmed and seething with resentment. Warned the London Daily Mail: "The horrors of the riots in Newark and Detroit may seem remote, but all the causes have already taken root here...
...students, feeling a step closer to their goal, staged victory marches through the cobblestoned streets of Louvain, chanting Flemish slogans and bringing out the cops again. "Whenever the language issue crops up in this country," noted Vanden Boeynants sadly, "passion takes over." Language is the surface issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth rate have shifted...
...root problem is that the market is still locked to the 18th century practice of shuffling millions of paper stock certificates back and forth among investors. What market managers need, and are trying to achieve, is a completely automated system that would do away with the fancy certificates but record the transactions of every investor on a master file, like deposits and withdrawals in bank accounts...