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...shared the struggle to make the hot little West African nation a going concern. Then, six months ago, Dia, back from a trip to Moscow, took a sharp left turn in his official policies. Moderate President Senghor disagreed violently with Dia's new line. Last week, in a showdown in the sunny capital of Dakar, Senghor shucked his old friend and clapped him under arrest in a palace guest house...
...said, "that President Kennedy or Governor Rockefeller, or New York's Mayor Wagner, or all three, issue a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." Except for this querulous broadside, both sides seemed grimly set on a showdown. "I think it only fair to state." said Amory Bradford. New York Times vice president and the Publishers Association's chief negotiator, "that the reputations of the I.T.U. and Local 6 for fair dealing have been shattered. We await any move you desire to make." Retorted the I.T.U.'s Bert...
...effective in the United Nations. There is little evidence that the President wishes to get rid of Stevenson. He has had nothing but praise for the Governor's performance in the U.N. Contrary to the allegations of Alsop and Bartlett, Stevenson contributed to the successful outcome of the Cuban showdown: he supported the arms blockade and opposed an invasion of Cuba at the risk of nuclear war. Stevenson never advocated a swap, as he did on October 27. On Stevenson's advice Kennedy postponed his blockade speech, thus gaining OAS support...
...Newspaper Guild members, the News struggled into print with one skimpy 16-page issue-run off on Hearst's Journal-American presses. Then the News suspended publication, the first and so far the only strike-bound Manhattan daily in what had originally looked like a management-labor showdown...
Eliot House moved into a first-place tie with Leverett in House football yesterday afternoon by scoring a narrow 7-0 victory over Winthrop. The two prospective champions, each of them undefeated and claiming six victories, face a showdown at Soldier's Field on Wednesday...