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...friends and alliances. Red China has always dreamed of one day employing Indonesia's oil, Thailand's rice, even Japan's technology, as fuel for a huge Asian alliance that could safely defy the West. And now Mao has been emphasizing color as a way to align the have-not nations of Asia and Africa against the West...
...birth day; action on requests to the government usually took from six months to three years. The dominant but powerless People's Party was also dead-set against Malaysia; the party's erratic, goateed, onetime veterinarian leader, Sheik A. M. Azahari, 34, wanted instead to align Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo into a single independent state-with himself as its leader...
...Bahamas, Britain turned over to America such poor atomic forces as it possessed. Britain could have handed them to Europe. Britain has made its choice. I am distressed to see England align herself with the U.S., for she risks acting like their traveling salesman...
...Prime Minister, may find it impossible to retain the suport of the Social Credit party in a crisis. Although they are his traditional allies, the Social Credit party favors the U.S. weapons. And the New Democrats, although slightly opposed to the atomic weapons, would not align themselves with the Conservatives...
Olympio's successor is Nicolas Grunitzky, 49, his brother-in-law, who was swept out of office as territorial Premier for the French when Olympio took over five years ago. Grunitzky's first act was to announce that Togo would align itself with the Afro-Malagasy Union, the pro-French association of West Africa states. Then he declared free elections would soon follow. But, as so often happens in such circumstances, he decided it would be best to dissolve Parliament and rule alone until things settled down...