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...pageant in Washington, D.C., a sailor emptied a pistol at a spectator who refused to rise for The Star-Spangled Banner, and the crowd cheered. In Hammond, Ind., a jury took only two minutes to acquit the assassin of an alien who yelled: "To hell with the U.S." In Waterbury, Conn., a salesman was sentenced to six months in jail for remarking that Lenin was "one of the brainiest" of the world's leaders...
Things did not work out as planned. Semiofficial results last week confirmed that Hassan's party had won only 69 seats, four short of a majority. Moreover, seven of nine Cabinet ministers running for the House under the King's banner lost their races, and the two opposition parties, the nationalist Istiqlal and the left-leaning National Union of Popular Forces, showed startling strength, winning 43 and 28 seats respectively. If they ganged up in a coalition, the two groups might be able to control the House. Steamed up by their new prestige, opposition leaders were already demanding...
...Security Council bucked the issue back to the Organization of American States. The OAS voted to send a second peacemaking group to Hispaniola with a broader mandate to keep peace on the explosive island and pressed Haiti to guarantee the safety of opposition Haitians. Under the OAS Banner. The U.S. plans to "proceed in company with the OAS," said President Kennedy last week, and would consider sanctions on Haiti only if present negotiations failed. A task force, with U.S. Marines aboard, maneuvered in the Gulf of Gonaïves within sight of Haiti's dun-colored mountains. Helicopters from...
...electrician to abstain from filial murder: Arab unity has been loudly trumpeted by Egypt, Syria and Iraq, but it has hardly been consummated. On the surface, everything seemed to be proceeding according to plan. Syria and Iraq lowered their national flags and raised instead the official three-star banner of Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic. Ministers raced from capital to capital discussing plans for merging foreign services, school systems, airlines and textbooks. Military delegations brooded over the vital amalgamation of the three armed forces. Jurists were hard at work on a draft of a new federal constitution...
...Dutch New Guinea capital of Hollandia one steamy day last week, the blue-and-white United Nations banner was hauled down, and the red-and-white flag of Indonesia stood waving triumphantly alone. Thus did President Sukarno complete his grab of a California-size chunk of new territory to add to Indonesia's sprawling island chain...