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...Summit. According to probably deliberate conference leaks, Tito told Khrushchev that Russia must play up to the emerging Afro-Asian nations to halt increasing Chinese penetration. Added Tito: As long as China is not a member of the U.N. (both Russia and Yugoslavia favor Peking's admission, but with waning enthusiasm), Moscow could make headway by supporting the Afro-Asian drive for membership in the U.N. Security and Economic and Social councils. Tito also said that Russia is being too doctrinaire in writing off Afro-Asian countries such as Syria, Algeria, Egypt and Iraq, which have outlawed local Communist...
...find it useful." Otherwise, Portugal would defend its territories "to the limit of our resources, if they think fit to turn their threats into acts of war." As for the U.N., which two weeks earlier called anew for curtailment of arms to Portugal, he saw the "massive entry" of Afro-Asian states as having distorted the world organization into a threat to peace. And in a bitter jab at his NATO partner, the U.S., which has been urging Portugal to decolonize, Salazar accused Washington of competing with Russia in Africa, principally for spheres of political influence and markets...
Revolutionary Play. Ben Bella has probably jailed fewer people in his first year of power than most Afro-Asian revolutionary leaders. His opposition ranges from National Assembly Speaker Ferhat Abbas, who complains that socialism is coming too swiftly, to Marxist Theoretician Mohammed Boudiaf, who complains that socialism is not coming quickly enough. Boudiaf and three of his supporters have been under house arrest since June, and another opponent, Mohammed Khider, has been exiled. At one time Ben Bella seemed threatened by shadowy, ascetic Colonel Houari Boumedienne; as Defense Minister and army chief, he has so much power that he probably...
...Japanese plant manager at Shannon, when she carried off first and third prizes for Irish poetry and Gaelic recitation. Young Ireland's horizons are being broadened by the foreign students who have been flocking to Irish universities, where they comprise nearly 17% of total enrollment; most come from Afro-Asian countries, where the distinctive accent of ex-colonial, nonaligned Dublin has become something of a status symbol. The visiting students, in turn, have generated new interest in language and history courses among their Irish friends...
Aperturismo. Most observers believe that the central issue at the conclave will be aperturismo-openness toward new trends in Catholic thinking, toward ecumenical relations with other Christians, toward new political approaches to Communism and Afro-Asian nationalism. There are perhaps 32 cardinals who would qualify as "progressive." But the openness of some is on selected issues: Munich's Julius Dopfner, 49, for example, is a convinced ecumenicist and a modern-minded theologian, but was disturbed by Pope John's opening to the East...