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...border agreement with Peking. Its high-stepping military, duly cheered each year on Armed Forces Day, is relatively stable and competent. With some success Burma has managed to steer a perilous neutral course between the West and China, having been helped greatly by the fact that the British withdrew in relatively good order rather than at the end of a disastrous war as the French did in Indo-China...
...social ills. Yet in office he has been stymied by a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats control only 24 of 147 Assembly seats and nine of 45 seats in the Senate. His opponents in six other parties have blocked him to the point where he finally withdrew his entire program until after election day. Said Frei: "I will appeal to the people as the supreme arbiter...
Despite more than a week of unofficial debate, almost no opposition developed yesterday. Charles N. Ascheim '65, who had opposed the non-elective, self-perpetuating nature of the executive committee, withdrew his counter-proposal, and voted or the new constitution...
...second half of The King and His Court consists of a biographical directory of leading Gaullists, annotated with symbols a la Guide Michelin. A camel, for example, signifies a Gaullist who stuck by the General during the desert years from 1953 to 1958, when he completely withdrew from politics. A machine gun insignia marks those who fought in the Resistance. Any kind of affiliation with De Gaulle, past or present, qualifies a man for the Directory. Thus Raymond Aron, now an opponent of De Gaulle, is listed along with heir-apparent Michele Debre and obscure hatchetmen like Jean-Baptiste Biaggi...
...through the front door, a student motioned to the memorial inscription carved into the front of the Church and yelled, "What kind of a church is this? It is dedicated to dead men who fought in a war. We don't want to be on those steps." The rally withdrew, totally and completely, to the base of the steps...