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Partial Control. The agenda also left plenty of time for interallied acrimony, which of late has seemed to be NATO's main activity. Greece and Turkey threaten war over Cyprus; London and Washington are at odds over British trade with Cuba; France in effect has withdrawn her navy from NATO command. The most sensitive issue of all promised to be the question of NATO's basic command structure, which has drawn a rising barrage of criticism in recent months. At the heart of the controversy lies the conviction of most NATO members that they should share control...
...first time since World War II, there were no Red Chinese officially on hand to witness the May Day parade. At the last minute, Russia had withdrawn its invitation to the delegation of Chinese workers who had come to Moscow especially for the occasion...
...threat struck home with Zanzibar's President Abeid Karume. Should Nyerere's cops be withdrawn, the only effective force on Zanzibar would be 300 bullyboys armed with automatic rifles who take orders from Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, and it is "Babu" who wants Moderate Karume's job. Alarmed, Karume flew to Dar es Salaam to plead with Nyerere, who listened sympathetically and offered a counter proposal: let Zanzibar immediately merge with Tanganyika...
...statement to be distributed during the picketing from 1 to 3 p.m. will ask "that all U.S. troops be withdrawn from Vietnam and the people of South Vietnam left to decide for themselves their form of government...
...things, a practicing Buddhist-was started. Two members of the pavilion's steering committee resigned in protest over the "sacrilegious and improper" portrayal. Last week Fair President Robert Moses, whose eye seems to be on every sparrow of impropriety, asked that the film be withdrawn, saying that he and his staff have grave doubts about the "good taste and validity of the film presenting Jesus as a clown...