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...Soviets were threatening to recognize the East German regime's authority over Berlin, which would have had the effect of denying access to the city for the U.S., France and Britain. It also placed the Adenauer government in jeopardy. Eisenhower made it clear that he would oppose the Soviets' attempt to violate the Four-Power agreement...
...BRITAIN. Despite relatively high interest rates, the British economy is showing some symptoms of a boom, according to Samuel Brittan. Not counting North Sea oil operations, profits have nearly doubled in the past four years. That is due in part to increased investment. The British economist foresees growth this year reaching 3.5%, but attributes a full percent of it to a temporary boost from the ending of the miners' strike. He expects the expansion to taper off to 2.25% next year. Brittan noted that the slowdown in the U.S. has not seriously affected West European growth so far because...
...apartheid. One of the first clerics to speak out against the system was Trevor Huddleston, a white British clergyman who, while working in a black shantytown outside Johannesburg in the early 1950s, openly condemned the South African government's policies. Now an Anglican bishop in Britain, the 72-year-old priest remains active, heading a London-based antiapartheid movement. On the front lines, in the meantime, new faces have emerged to continue the struggle...
...Africa's best-known churchman today is a Huddleston protégé, Desmond Tutu. Impressed by Huddleston's work on behalf of the country's oppressed, Tutu abandoned a career as a schoolteacher to enter the Anglican church in 1958 and study for the priesthood. He worked in parishes in Britain and in 1978 was appointed a bishop in Lesotho. That same year he was named general secretary of the 13 million-member South African Council of Churches (SACC). In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his antiapartheid efforts, and this year he became the first black Anglican...
...BRITAIN The Tories in Rebellion...