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...country now flows down from the north in caravans of 20 to 50 Russian gas trucks to sell for a giveaway 25? a gallon in Kabul. Exports (furs, fruit, carpets) that used to stop and go at the Khyber Pass with every Pakistani whim now travel north to more cer tain Soviet markets. U.S. officials estimate that there are already several thousand Soviet do-gooders spreading their blessings in Afghanistan. Last week Kabul's only modern hotel was jammed with members of the 200-man Russian delegation to the city's international trade fair (the U.S. sent three...
Born: Dec. 1, 1920, in Saint-Ceré (pop. 2,547) in France's Massif Central, youngest of an architect's seven children. Baptized Pierre...
...Struggle: Back in Saint-Ceré the Poujades set up a small book-and-stationery shop, scraped along on sales of tourist postcards. Elected to municipal council on a Gaullist ticket, Poujade developed a gift for homespun speechmaking...
...Movement: In July 1953, some 30 Saint-Ceré merchants, notified that the tax inspector was about to examine their books, appealed to Councilor Poujade, who formed a committee that threw out the tax inspectors, later organized resistance against the police. ("I cheat on my taxes. I always have. I couldn't get by otherwise.") Poujade formed the Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, which quickly spread throughout France. In March last year, heading a national movement of 800,000 supporters, he called a taxpayers' strike, took his fight for fiscal reform to the National Assembly...
Died. João Alberto Lins de Barros, 57, Brazilian Diplomatic Minister and foreign-trade expert, longtime right-hand man of the late President Getúlio Vargas ; of can cer; in Rio de Janeiro. Joao Alberto played an important role in the 1930 revolution that brought Vargas to power. During the 1 5-year dictatorship that fol lowed, he was chiefly responsible, as federal interventor of São Paulo and chief of police of Rio de Janeiro, for Vargas' survival in the face of repeated internal