Word: according
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Though he would prefer to settle the dispute within the Commonwealth, Wilson has vowed to take it to the U.N. if no accord is reached by Nov. 30. If that happens, Smith has said that "the matter would be taken out of our hands," meaning he would have no choice but to declare Rhodesia a republic and sever ties with the Commonwealth...
...Zealand to Japan, recently formed the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) for closer cooperation. Nineteen Asian and Pacific nations joined together in December 1965 to participate in the $1 billion Asian Development Bank. Japan and South Korea, ending more than half a century of hostility, last June signed an accord under which Japan will provide $800 million for Korean modernization. Indonesia's new regime last week returned to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) -another form of Asian togetherness...
...alliance of S.N.C.C. and CORE, denouncing King's Chicago housing accord as "treasonous" and a sellout, threatened last week to defy King's truce-and hopes for racial peace in Chicago-by marching into whites-only Cicero (TIME, Sept. 2) as King had planned to do before Chicago leaders met his demands. Some members voiced hopes for violence that would tarnish King's philosophy of nonviolence. In anticipation of "the tumult, riot or mob disorder" that might result from the march. Governor Otto Kerner at week's end activated some 2,000 National Guardsmen for duty...
...frustration for the metropolitan area's 650,000 Negroes. Watts (pop. 30,000) occupies a small part of a vast South Los Angeles Negro ghetto the size of Boston. Though its stucco homes and pastel-colored housing projects have a neat and ordered look that does not accord with the Eastern idea of slums, the Watts Negro feels even deeper frustration than Negroes elsewhere. Unemployment rates are high, fatherless homes are common, lawyers and doctors scarce. Served by a skeleton public transportation system and often unable to afford a car, the Watts Negro is among the most isolated...
...Tropical Fish Hobbyist Herbert Axelrod [July 29], TIME says "he delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas are not man-eaters." This is not in accord with my childhood memories of placing my hand against the glass wall of the piranha tank in the hometown aquarium for the thrill of watching these aggressive Lilliputians try to attack the hand...