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...Soviet border. But a powerful clique of Saudi royal princes has been ceaselessly nagging the King to toss the U.S.A.F. out of Dhahran. The princes were eager to appease Nasser and other Arab nationalists who had used the King's sufferance of a U.S. base on Arab soil as an excuse for attacks on the Saudi royal family...
...invasion pointed to last week's meeting at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, where, at U.S. insistence, anti-Castro refugee leaders of the left and right began working out a common program and a provisional government-which they optimistically insist will be proclaimed "soon" on liberated Cuban soil...
...that unhappy land. But cutting South Africa loose would in no way improve its plight. Isolation would worsen the lot of the blacks, since the Afrikaaners would be driven through fear to worse repression, and it would weaken the position of the English-speaking population, the only soil for the seeds of change in the whole country. Severing the ties between the English-speaking group and the rest of the Commonwealth would only intensify its loneliness and despair. The formation of the republic has lessened Afrikaaner resentment of this group, and as long it continues to receive support from England...
Buckets of Bugs. Tribesmen corralled 305 trained hunting elephants, and Nepalese troops cleared a campsite in the dense Meghavli jungle. To get rid of insects and snakes, they stripped six inches of soil off a 2-sq.-mi. area, replaced it with soft turf and a specially constructed water sprinkling system. Buckets of bugs were carried away, and the entire site was sprayed with DDT. Into the Queen's two-bedroom tent went a white-lacquered zinc bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill...
...This incapacity to praise the world which the Socialist camp hoped to construct has frequently been traced to an alleged reluctance with which Brecht embraced Stalinism, but there is little evidence to support this theory. It seems clear that his negativism was rooted more in psychological than political soil: his fundamental interest was not the constructive process, but disintegration...