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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Adenauer's Christian Democrats. It would be an uphill struggle running against wily old Chancellor Adenauer, 84. Brandt showed he was ready to take some lessons from a man almost his own age, Jack Kennedy. If elected, Brandt promised that Germany would move forward to become a "model state" but not "a sleepy welfare state." Brandt has already thrown overboard most of the Marxist trappings of his party. In foreign policy, he said, Germany must stand firmly in the Western camp: "We do not wander between the fronts. We know where we belong." Brandt sat down to great cheers...
...Salvador. Five weeks after the overthrow of President José Maria Lemus, the U.S. is still withholding recognition from the six-man revolutionary junta until the State Department's Special Envoy Allan Stewart checks reports that the junta is a front for Castroites and Communists...
Where it can, Mexico also gives Castro's Cubans as little rope as possible. The Mexican government keeps a watchful eye on Castro's diplomats, grants very few visas to Cubans, either pro-or anti-Castro. Pemex, the state oil monopoly, turned down a Cuban request for technicians to help operate the refineries that Castro had seized from U.S. companies...
...Australia, where quadrigamy may tempt some men but is illegal for all, the portly and jovial Sultan of Pahang, ruler of Malaya's largest state, arrived with one of his four wives, pretty Che' Haabah Bind Ahmad, 25, gave fascinated Down Under newsmen an illustration of marital democracy in action. He explained that each of his wives has her own eight-room, air-conditioned palace, and each takes turns in appearing with him at official ceremonies and traveling with him. Che' reported that she and the other three "get on very well," happily observed that "when...
...powerful American Medical Association makes passing the test the qualification for internships and residencies in accredited U.S. hospitals-therefore foreign doctors lose their jobs upon failing the test. They lose their right to stay in the U.S. because the State Department makes holding such a hospital job the qualification for keeping a visa...