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...their connection with America, I fear. I think they know-or guess-that when the Hundred Years' War between the big powers boils up into shooting again, both sides will hang back as long as possible from the irrevocable insult: direct attack on each other's home soil...
Guinea and newly independent Cameroon brawled openly. Rising to attack the Mali Federation-Libya, Tunisia and Morocco-for permitting foreign bases on their soil, Guinea's Foreign Affairs Chief Abdoulaye Diallo also lit into Cameroon for permitting French troops to stay. Cameroon Delegate Charles Okala promptly pointed out that the Guinea police state had accepted arms from Czechoslovakia, hinting at the well-known fact that some of these weapons ended up in the hands of dissident Cameroon tribes men. "If there are troops in Cameroon, whose fault is it?" Okala demanded. "We have all tried...
...countryside, are out of work a third of the time, make an average of $1,700 a year, are not covered by most federal employment laws. All this makes the valley, once the scene of bitter strikes by the Okies and Arkies of Grapes of Wrath fame, fertile soil for labor unrest...
...independence day on June 30; but bloody tribal fighting has raged for months through the Congo. Bitterest of all was in the land of the Lulua. Since the 19th century, when Arab slave raiders drove the frightened Baluba westward into Lulua territory, the Baluba had happily tilled Lulua soil in semi-serfdom in exchange for the right to remain in the area. Then last year, when whispers of Congolese independence filtered out from Leopoldville, the Baluba began declaring themselves free men, tried to take over some of the Lulua land for themselves...
...Township: "The American suburb is the last outpost of democracy, the only level left on which the individual citizen can make his wishes felt, directly and immediately. I think there's something idealistic about the search for a home in the suburbs. Call it a return to the soil. It's something that calls most people some time in their lives.'' When France's Charles de Gaulle saw San Francisco's suburban Palo Alto on his trip to the U.S. six weeks ago, he hailed Suburbia as "magnifique...