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...rich agricultural area 250 miles east of Leopoldville, where some 500 Communist-supplied tribal guerrillas were on the rampage. The leftist insurgents controlled about one-third of the territory, had burned and looted a palm-oil plantation, administration buildings and schools. A curfew was imposed on the panic-stricken provincial capital of Kikwit, and the families of four U.S. missionaries were hastily evacuated from their posts, 22 miles from the city...
...dais in the main conference hall, the single empty easy chair set aside for Nehru's use symbolized the big problem that now faced India: Who will succeed its stricken leader...
...motion to contest the will of George L. Lincoln '95, former instructor in the English department, was stricken Tuesday by Edmund V. Keville '33, Probate Court Judge of Suffolk County...
...information as whether a doctor is on board-of some 850 merchant ships in the North Atlantic. Within moments, the computer's memory drums typed out the names of five vessels within 100 miles of the Lakonia, and urgent messages were flashed to them to proceed to the stricken liner. The five were the Argentine passenger liner Salfa, the Belgian merchant ship Charlesville, the British freighters Montcalm and Stratheden, and the Brazilian freighter Rio Grande. Some were already on the way, having picked up the S O S on their own radios. The R.A.F. at Gibraltar hurriedly organized...
Campeche's settlers come from Mexico's , drought-stricken midsection-mostly from La Laguna, which once produced half of Mexico's cotton but is now a disaster area (TIME, March 15). Each will be moved by the government, supplied with food for a year, given materials for building a cement-block house, 40 acres of fertile land, plus-on a communal basis-five acres of permanently irrigated land and 56 acres of forest and grazing land. Each town will have a school and a health center with a fulltime doctor and two nurses. The government estimates...