Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busy enough, for last week, at 55, Nkrumah began yet another career. Hearing rumors that two generals were gossiping about him, he decided that his army needed new leadership, began casting around for a new commanding officer. It didn't take him long to find one. In brief ceremonies at Accra's Burmayh military camp last week, Kwame Nkrumah, the very model of a modern major general, swore himself...
Brink of an Abyss. At week's end, in a brief ceremony at the National Palace in downtown Santo Domingo, García-Godoy was officially installed as his country's 47th President. He is, by all accounts, an able, well-regarded man: a middle-of-the-road liberal and a foreign minister under ex-President Juan Bosch. "We are a country," said García-Godoy in his inaugural speech, "at the brink of an abyss. We must react with honest administration, intensive popular education, the establishment of a civil service, an agrarian reform, an armed forces...
Ramiro Valdés, Castro's Minister of Interior, suggested as much in a brief radio speech last week. "We must fight," he told Cubans, "against internal espionage, sabotage, acts of terrorism and attempted assassinations." A few weeks ago, according to one report, saboteurs put the torch to two Cuban PT boats in Santiago harbor. Another report tells of a Cuban antiaircraft battery that gunned down a Cuban army transport in the belief that Castro was aboard...
...result, arguments over church-state issues raised by sectarian pressures of individual churches are far fewer than they were a decade ago. Last February, for example, the Catholic Council on Civil Liberties submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court, attacking the Connecticut law against birth control that so long offended Protestants. The National Council of Churches, traditionally opposed to direct federal aid for parochial schools, accepted with only minor qualms this year's education act that provides for certain assistance to children who attend such schools. The breakdown of hostility has taken place on both sides...
There are some good Technicolor Panavision picture postcards of the Sierra Madre country on Mexico's northern plateau. And there is a certain fascination in watching Dean Martin's face run the gamut of unshavenness from shot to shot (for one brief sequence he seems to have a mustache). But the only niche The Sons of Katie Elder will have in cinema history is that it is 58-year-old John Wayne's 165th triumph of Right over Wrong...