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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agency driving to build this unheralded rival to Western Europe's powerful six-nation Common Market is the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or COMECON. Founded eleven years ago in Moscow as a crude Stalinist device for milking the satellites for Soviet benefit, COMECON was transformed into some thing more palatable after the 1956 Polish and Hungarian risings had compelled the Russians to pour $1.5 billion in emergency aid into the satellite lands. Communist rulers of the seven satellite nations pledged their peoples' labors to help Nikita Khrushchev overtake and "bury" the capitalist West through a planned...
...Betweens. Politically, the rebels were in better shape. Despite De Gaulle's hopes to the contrary, the economic boom in Algiers (TIME, June 20) and other Algerian cities has not won over to the French cause even those Moslems who benefit from it. Though few of them dare express their views for fear of French army reprisals, the bulk of Algeria's Moslems, including some who outwardly "collaborate" with France, continue to sympathize with the F.L.N. demand for independence. Higher wages for Moslem workers often help finance a bigger contribution to F.L.N. coffers, and time and again, French...
...troops came in, Chamoun went out, and neutralist General Fuad Chehab replaced him for a six-year term. Last week the Lebanese were in the throes of their first post-revolt election. And for the first time in the coun try's 14-year history, they enjoyed the benefit of a secret ballot...
...became haunted by the splendor of the private collections that ordinary people were never allowed to see. One day he approached the Contessa Bianca Cavazza, president of the women's committee of the Florentine Red Cross, with a plan: Why not stage a huge public exhibition for the benefit of the Red Cross? The journalist and the contessa started making the rounds, and one by one the Corsini, the Ginori, the Serristori, the Antinori, the Pucci and the rest agreed that for a few days they would do without the precious possessions so long hidden behind the thick grey...
Within an hour after witnesses left the stand, a network of 14 stations was playing the juicy testimony over the air. Nightly each station had a 3½-hour trial roundup for the benefit of working people who had missed the daytime broadcasts. By the end of the trial, with the defendant found guilty, public feeling had been so aroused that one lawyer commented last week: "I'm afraid that the radio and newspaper coverage of this trial will make it impossible to find a jury anywhere in Mississippi in case a new trial is ordered.'' Such...