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...differences that beset Franco-American relations, nothing angers Charles de Gaulle more than the U.S.'s refusal to help him build his atom bomb. Time after time, French officials have shown up in Washington with shopping lists for nuclear equipment and other gadgetry needed by De Gaulle's proposed force de frappe (striking force), only to be turned away. Last week, President Kennedy publicly, and emphatically, gave the French another...
Recently, Burma has been beset again by a faltering economy and sharpened political tensions. Heavy floods last fall wiped out 800,000 acres of revenue-producing rice just as the nation was about to embark on an ambitious industrial development plan; U Nu's Union Party elected five left-wingers to key executive posts; ethnic minority groups such as Shans and Karens were demanding greater self-determination, threatening national unity. Last week, reading the signs of a "vastly deteriorating situation," Ne Win staged a lightning-quick coup, seized U Nu and about 40 other government leaders. Despite the rumble...
...immediate issue which precipitated Pennn's action was, quite appropriately, a fight over the Student Government Association, an organization so beset with student politicking that one party within it advocates abolition of the system. After a particularly hectic session, the Pennsylvanian took a similar stand, and the next day, on recommendation of the SGA, the Dean of Men notfiied the paper's staff that publication was suspended...
...traditional charges of incompetence and improper influence which beset the Federal Aviation Agency have taken a very unpleasant twist in the last few months. The FAA has apparently lost the ability to distinguish between its regulatory responsibilities and its tasks as administrator of the District of Columbia's airports...
...only $165, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; by no coincidence only 13 elected governments have finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash for asylum in the Mexican embassy in Quito, thus paving the way for a leftist takeover and plunging his country into a crisis similar to Jãnio Quadros' abrupt flight from Brazil...