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...students vowed to prevent Kishi's take-off for the U.S., and 700 of them seized the airport building the night before his departure last week, wrecked the restaurant and fought the police with bamboo spears and pepper shakers before they were ejected. Mobs of students lined the approaches to the airfield, prepared to stone Kishi's car or throw themselves under its wheels. But with radio guidance supplied by a hovering helicopter, Kishi's motorcade avoided what he called the "distasteful, insignificant demonstration," and he serenely took off for his meeting with President Eisenhower...
...plane touches down in Nairobi, he is met by a brace of Rolls-Royces with zebra-skin upholstery. The cars whisk 125 miles north across Kikuyu country and draw up before the lush green lawns of the Mount Kenya Safari Club. Stretching away to either side are bamboo forests where roam the elephant and rhinoceros. Above towers snow-clad Mount Kenya, soaring 17,040 ft. into the equatorial sky. At sunset, guests are thrilled by the throb of tribal drums in the gloaming. (Since natives were lacking on the 95 acres of grounds in the "white" highlands of Kenya...
...time has come for all of us, on both sides of the Iron and Bamboo curtains, to face squarely the issue of whether we can afford to permit any dispute anywhere to be settled by recourse to arms," said Dillon. "We firmly reject attempts by Communist leaders to justify what they call 'just, revolutionary wars' or 'wars of liberation.' War is war, no matter where or why it may be fought. Peace also is indivisible. Peace is not the prerogative of the Communists alone, nor can it be applied only to areas outside the immediate concern...
Atop the graceful, rose-colored Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking last week stood the two plump, 65-year-old men who rule one-third of the earth's people. As lithe girls danced by to the rhythm of bamboo castanets, and nine huge cloth dragons whirled along in pursuit of 60 golden lions, Red China's Mao Tse-tung beamed in the morning sunlight, bland and benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth...
...seemed most determined to conquer. Often, villages were occupied without a fight. In some, families packed hastily and paddled away in dugout canoes, leaving their villages half empty as the terrorists approached. Last week the banks of the Mekong at the royal capital of Luangpra-bang were dotted with bamboo huts built by newly arrived refugees from threatened areas; at week's end Communist bands were stirring up incidents in the vicinity of the royal capital itself...