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Britain, unhappy over a war between the Commonwealth's two most populous members, followed Washington's example and stopped its $50 million a year in military aid to India (it sends no arms to Pakistan); but it could do no more.* Moscow was equally helpless. Unwilling to endanger Russia's ties with India, and fearful of pushing Pakistan even closer to Peking, Communist Premier Aleksei Kosygin appealed to both to "stop the tanks and silence the guns...
...charge of the campaign, most of those hinky-dinky ditties about her were untrue. She was not a mademoiselle at all, but a tall, slim widow named Marie Lecoq who worked as a waitress at the Café de la Paix. Furthermore, during the four years that British and Commonwealth troops were stationed in Armentières, she was more virtuous than many of her unsung sisters. The ditty got its start, in fact, when she roundly slapped a British officer who tried to kiss her in the café. Its first verse, written by a sergeant who watched...
...jealousies brought trouble to a climax. The federation was given the coup de grace by the very man who had conceived it, Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, 62, an aristocratic, Cambridge-educated lawyer. Convalescing in the south of France from an attack of shingles, following attendance at the Commonwealth Conference in London last June, the Tunku drew up a balance sheet of the pros and cons of a "Malaysia without Singapore." The Tunku had brooded for months about the growing tensions that he feared might bring a renewed bout of the bloody race riots that flared in Singapore...
...London last week, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government showed what a difference a few years-and the assumption of power and responsibility-make. Labor published a White Paper proposing new cutbacks on immigration from Commonwealth countries. Under the new measures, only 8,500 work vouchers will be issued annually, and they will go only to immigrants with special skills-doctors, teachers, graduates in science and technology. Shelved indefinitely would be the applications of some 300,000 persons on the immigration waiting list...
...judges and seven women; Federal Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is one of the teachers. Each student pays $80, but the Salzburg Corporation estimates that it spends some $500 on each student, gets the difference from the Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Commonwealth and Avalon Foundations, plus private U.S. corporations and individual donors. Some 45 lectures are jammed into each four weeks, followed by afternoon talkfests in which the lectures are expanded or shredded. A main attraction is a 15,000-volume library of Americana...