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With representatives from Israel, Iraq, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan present, one could tell before the fourth forum of the International Seminar got under way Wednesday night, that conflict was inevitable...
Speaking on "The prospects of Democracy in Asia," the three main speakers of the evening from Ceylon, Iraq, and the Philippines immediately established themselves as optimistic, pessimistic and undecided as to the prospects of Democracy...
...young writers--Miss Bingham, Nemerov, Margaret Hambrecht, Sidney Goldfarb '64--have written here with originality or freshness. While Advocate editors have become more aware of the professionals writing today, its writers have confined themselves to two shoddy genres developed by the New Yorker: the "my childhood with snakes in Ceylon" and the "my coming of age in squalid surroundings" genres. Advocate poets not only write imitation Ginsberg and pseudo-Lowell these days; they all write about pigeons...
...public figures with presents, and tends zealously to his three jobs-at the bank, as director of fiscal policy for Thailand's Finance Ministry and as dean of the economics faculty at Thammasat University. Last month Puey quietly put together a formal alliance of central-bank governors from Ceylon, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Viet Nam to plan regional economic projects, push for lower tariffs and pooled transport facilities...
...finances and talent. Occasionally a new nation admits that it just cannot afford the overhead; although it is a U.N. member, Gambia has no U.N. mission, told the Assembly it might not be able to afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy's. Rwanda President Gregoire Kayibanda's chief government handicap is even more serious: he has no telephone in his palace in Kigali. Periodically he sends...