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...political reality than either De Gaulle or Adenauer. For that is their job-to turn "general aspiration into a concrete proposal," as one Monnet associate put it-and they have been doing it well since the committee was formed in October 1955. Its first public declaration was a virtual blueprint for Euratom. the joint Western European agency for the peaceful uses of atomic power. By applying pressure to strategic points, the committee also helped mightily to push the Common Market treaty through European parliaments. Last year it aired the possibility of a single European monetary system...
Hunger was still Red China's most pressing problem. Refugees from Canton reported that 800,000 of the city's population of 2,000,000 are being transferred to farm communes in an effort to increase agricultural output. Heavy industry in Kwangtung has come to a virtual standstill as plants have either shut down or are operating with only skeleton forces...
Paper Solace. The result is that some areas of the vast Congo interior are at a virtual standstill; last year coffee and cotton exports yielded only fractions of their normal revenue, and much of the big palm-oil output is lost to smugglers. Unemployed workers upcountry now flock to Leopoldville, where 100,000 of the normal 300,000 labor force are already out of work. Organized gangs, ignoring the barred windows and the bright floodlights around homes of the well to do, creep up at night to saw off the bars and steal what they can. The U.N. is bringing...
Annoyed at Arm Twisting. But apart from the oppressive aspects of the bill, the Administration's defeat was partly traceable to resentment of its pressure tactics. The virtual unanimity of the Republicans resulted not from any real unanimity of opinion on the bill, but from their accumulated hostility against the Kennedy Administration's methods. And at least some of the 48 Democrats who voted against the bill (among them: Congressman Pike) were annoyed at the Administration's arm twisting. Said the American Farm Bureau Federation's President Charles B. Shuman: The outcome was a victory...
Although the Watutsi comprised only 14% of the population of 5,000,000, they kept the Bahutu majority and the Batwa Pygmies in a state of virtual serfdom. Cattle feudalism was the basis of the system. The hapless Bahutu were forbidden to own or kill cattle; they could get beef only when cattle died of natural causes. Each Watutsi's wealth, prestige, and political position were measured by the size of his herd, and every cow was regarded as a sister in his family...