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...abysmally poor people-mostly jobless Palestinian refugees who had been living on the U.N. food dole of 1,500 calories a day. Last week the U.N. resumed feeding them, and Goren made Gaza's Egyptian pound exchangeable for Israeli currency to encourage Arab shopkeepers to reopen. At his behest, many town mayors agreed to return to their desks to handle the basic of civil administration. Arab police, stripped of their arms and Egyptian insignia, soon took over some of the civil patrolling from Israeli soldiers...
...find the depot out of stock. Besides, many Indian peasants intuitively distrust any gifts from the government. The only really effective channel to the villagers is maintained by a few giant commercial enterprises that sell shopkeepers such everyday goods as soap, tea, cigarettes and matches. At the behest of the Ford Foundation, the Health Ministry began in 1966 to use this commercial pipeline for a pilot program in condom distribution in the Meerut District, an area of 3,000,000 people adjacent to New Delhi...
...More Snapping. Vorster has even taken a few hesitant steps toward easing apartheid. At his behest, three new apartheid bills have been taken off the docket of the current session of Parliament, and the government last week amended the old Verwoerd ban on interracial sports to permit South Africa to send an integrated team to the 1968 Olympics. Vorster also created something of a stir last month by receiving a trade delegation from the black African nation of Malawi with full honors (including limousines driven by white chauffeurs), entertained Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan of the tiny new state of Lesotho...
...months to nine years away to public services." Neustadt emphasized, however, that the Institute would not accept any government contract work, and would take on problems in the study groups that interested its members. In other words, the Institute would avoid the position of acting at the government's behest...
...marching toward the center of town. Police headed them off and arrested six leaders of the march. Then an even more curious thing happened. Last week the workers staged a sitdown strike to protest the arrests-and won. Before the strike was five hours old, the police, at the behest of the Labor Ministry, dropped charges against all six labor leaders and released them...