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...coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
...exchange for a softer policy on travel across the Wall, the Communists were demanding huge money credits from Bonn. A woman in the American sector said wanly, "Nobody here is hoping any more. My daughter and grandchildren are in East Berlin, only five minutes' walk from here. But I haven't been able to speak to them since September 1961." Though the reunion of families is banned. West Berliners did have some mild cause for rejoicing. A year ago, the Communists were talking noisily of an imminent separate peace treaty with the Soviet Union, with its implied threat...
...leads, but only that from now on he will have to lead by using the more orthodox methods of a Western politician. Conservative members of the Congress Party, notably Finance Minister Morarji Desai, have been strengthened, and expect that Nehru's dogmatic reliance on socialism and the "public sector" of industry will be reduced; if India is to arm in a hurry, they argue, it will need the drive and energy of the "private sector...
Allied troops were pinned to the beach by murderous fire. Many had been put ashore at the wrong place, and officers desperately pored over out-of-date maps trying to get themselves oriented. The British, assigned the north sector of the 20-mile stretch of beach, found themselves ten miles from the nearest Americans to the south, and the Germans soon filled the gap. Cried a dismayed U.S. artilleryman: "We've got them just where they want...
...Alliance for Progress planners figure that a 2.5% per capita annual growth in gross national product is essential. But only two Latin American countries have averaged more than 2% in the past five years. The rest have failed to keep pace with a 2.9% population growth. Almost every sector of the economy is in the doldrums...