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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...policy from the Communist threat in Cuba (see HEMISPHERE) to highly technical details of East-West nuclear test-ban negotiations in Geneva, to the likely impact of U.S. weather satellite Tiros 1 on the legal status of outer space. To each question, Herter replied in measured, carefully framed sentences, without benefit of prepared statement...
...locations" at both Cape Town and Durban were cowed. Most workers were back at their jobs, and the hapless blacks who had burned their passes in the first emotional days of violence were lamely queueing up for new ones (at $2.80 apiece) at government offices. Without the hated passbooks, no job was possible, for the authorities were warning white employers of severe penalties for hiring workers without them...
...official level, De Gaulle achieved little. Speaking as a man without any stockpile of A-bombs of his own, De Gaulle repeated his proposal that all nuclear weapons should be destroyed and forsworn by everyone. Apparently, he is undeterred by the probability that the destruction of atomic weapons would simply restore military primacy to the nation with the most potent conventional armed forces. Staunchly convinced that Europe's future depends upon the close collaboration of France with Germany, he gave Prime Minister Harold Macmillan little sympathy in his plea for a showdown in establishment of the Common Market...
When Daddah took over, Mauritania had not even a capital; as part of the old French West Africa, it had been administered from St.-Louis, across the frontier in Senegal. "A country without a capital is like a body without a head," said Daddah, choosing the little oasis settlement of Nouakchott (pop. 600) as a convenient central seat of government. Today, with the help of French grants and loans, Daddah is slowly building a town; using seashells from the coast as a cheaper substitute for the gravel needed to make concrete. He lives in a prefabricated house just like most...
...taxation: "The ancient kings took taxes from the people as bees take honey -without harming the flowers. Indeed, the flowers multiplied. The new rajahs take honey from the people in such a way that they cause pain. The flowers droop in sorrow...