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Africa's prophets of revolution have come on hard times. They once dreamed of bringing the whole continent under the leftist banner through subversion, sloganeering and bullying, but it is becoming apparent that a growing majority of moderate African states want no part of their plans. Only a fortnight ago, the Organization of African Unity, the league they had hoped to dominate, rejected the radicals' demands for a hearing for the Congolese rebels, and last month a bloc of 13 former French colonies met in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott to give their official support to the legitimate...
...just wanted to punt," some will admit. More often it's "Why shouldn't I? Besides, it hurts my eyes to read Kant." And among addicts there is a lot of self-hate. When the final "thought for today" has been fired off, the Star Spangled Banner has yet waved, and only fuzz fills the screen, there is little jubilation. It is usually more like it was at Harvard the other night. "Well, another day shot to shingles...
...chase grew more dramatic, so did the front-page headlines in the British press. The Daily Express ran a picture of the fugitive's spouse under an eight-column banner, THE LITTLE WOMAN WHO WAITS. When the escapee was seen on the grounds of U.S. Ambassador David Bruce's residence, the Daily Mirror headline fluttered, NOW GOLDIE CALLS ON UNCLE SAM FOR HELP...
...were Christian Democrats and sure to lose. They won. Three party stalwarts offered their names only to fill out the ballot. They were going to Moscow, Bonn and Bern as ambassadors. They won. In fact, practically anyone could have won in Chile last week- if he ran under the banner of Chile's Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei "This," said Frei, "has been a veritable earthquake...
...Venezuela has done such an effective job of mopping up its Communists that Jersey Standard's Creole and other oil companies, which transferred more than $100 million out of the country in 1962 and 1963, are pumping capital back in again, though not so fast as in the banner year of 1957. Mexico's President Diaz Ordaz recently set a new tone by declaring: "We need and welcome private capital." In the light of anti-inflation measures in Brazil, the World Bank, in which the U.S. has the greatest stake, has agreed to lend money to that country...