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...representing 172 parties, by 43 million voters who are more than 50% illiterate and speak some 200 different dialects, at 93,000 polling places in a primitive country that is 3,000 miles long and cut up into 3,000 islands. For the young (6 years), inexperienced Indonesian Republic, beset with a desperate economic crisis, five concurrent armed rebellions and a government only one month in office, the task might have seemed impossible...
...Walter Reed has mushroomed since it opened in 1909 as a memorial to the famed conqueror of yellow fever. For all its latter-day interest in such matters as freeze-anesthesia and radiation sickness, the Army must still, like Reed, plod squishy jungle trails to track down diseases that beset its men in the tropics. Among Walter Reed's works-in-progress...
...February Butler had hiked bank rates on loans from 3½% to 4½%, also curbed installment buying. But it had little effect. Labor, its hand strengthened by overfull employment and Tory Party unwillingness to antagonize trade unions, had demanded and received higher wages, causing increased domestic demand. Manufacturers, beset by higher costs, found it harder to compete in world markets. They took the easy way out by selling their products in the clamoring home market...
...Fight the Same Evils." U Nu, 48, has been Prime Minister of Burma (pop. 19 million) for all seven of its years as a free country. Beset by two Communist and several factional rebellions, by the legacy of war's chaos, by the inexperience of his young civil servants, U Nu has striven to lift his country toward new hope of survival (TIME, Aug. 30). Modest and meditative U Nu fought the Communists at home, plumped for Nehru's neutralism abroad, but concentrated on leading an extraordinary Buddhist revival which is now the focus of his country...
...State Department calls Japan's invitation to GATT a "notable achievement for the U.S. foreign economic program," and the delighted Japanese officials in Geneva poured champagne. But Britain, beset by Japan's competition with her depressed Lancashire textile industry, announced that it would not extend GATT's most-favored-nation treatment to Japan. Also outraged : the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, which called the new U.S. tariff agreement with Japan "a staggering blow" to U.S. textile makers...