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...Department by department the Commonwealth's government is being run by patronage," Dumaine stated. He countered the charge that the Crime Commission is the "political vendetta of the Republican Party," calling it a necessary organ for maintaining "some morality" in the governorship...
Even John F. Griffin, the manager, doesn't know how many different items the store carries. "Several thousand, anyway," he says. "We feature more foods from more countries per square foot than any other store in the Commonwealth. We've built up our stocks through requests: if we get enough requests for something, we stock it." The increase in travel abroad has helped business. "People come back from India and want rice flour, so we give them rice flour...
While Malaysia has other markets in the British Commonwealth, Indonesia faces economic isolation. Even the Phil ippines, which once joined Sukarno in opposing the federation, is now seeking a graceful way to recognize Malaysia. Distressed by Sukarno's bluff and bluster, the U.S. is reconsidering its economic-aid program to Indonesia and has backed away from participation in a multinational, $250 million program to help balance Sukarno's huge trade deficit...
...savage, looting Djakarta mob lived up to its world reputation. Boiling through the streets of the city, thousands of rioters went on a three-day rampage to protest the birth of the neighboring Federation of Malaysia, which joins Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo in a new British Commonwealth nation. With the tacit approval of Indonesia's rabble-rousing President Sukarno, who bitterly opposes the federation for the challenge it poses to his influence in Southeast Asia, the mob succeeded in presenting the fledgling nation with a full-grown diplomatic and military crisis before it was even one week...
...club's door. Israel and Iran are negotiating a trade pact with Europe's Six. In Africa, 18 former French, Belgian and Italian colonies recently signed an export-boosting treaty with the Market. Last week, in the first break away from the solid ranks of the British Commonwealth nations, Nigeria asked the Six to consider some kind of association with it. Many Common Marketeers favor the bid from black Africa's biggest nation (pop. some 45 million), believing that the new Europe should expand its influence in the world's less developed areas. Perhaps the most...