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Last year industry's conservative Committee for Economic Development estimated that school costs will rise by 47% in the '60s. At that rate, state and local governments would have to divert nearly all of their revenue to education alone. Yet 15 poor states are already making a greater financial effort than the U.S. average, and cannot meet national educational standards. For example, Mississippi spends 3.7% of personal income to raise $225.86 per pupil, while Delaware, by spending only 2.8%, raises...
Shrill threats to "liberate West Irian" have long been President Sukarno's favorite device to rouse Indonesian patriotic passions and divert attention from the myriad shortcomings of his floundering economy at home. Indonesia's claim to Netherlands New Guinea is based on the fact that the Dutch administered it as part of The Netherlands East Indies along with the other islands that now make up independent Indonesia...
...Liberal government zeroed in on Canadian editions of U.S. magazines (principally TIME and Reader's Digest), imposed a 20% tax on their Canadian advertising revenues. Diefenbakers Tories denounced the tax as discriminatory and as an interference with freedom of the press. Since the tax also failed to divert advertising to Canadian publications, the Tories repealed it in 1958 after they came to power...
Seeking to divert attention from this humiliation. Nkrumah fired off a note to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold charging the U.S., Britain and France with supporting a Belgian effort to regain control of the Congo. Then he advised the U.N. haughtily that he had proposed to nine other African nations* the formation of an independent African military command to handle such difficult assignments in the future. Since he had not invited such unsympathetic nations as Nigeria (most populous country in Africa) or those of the French Community (except for Mali), he avoided the risk of a mass rejection; but even...
...note also that Dr. Hans Bethe, Professor of Physics at Cornell University, commented that I was attempting "to divert public opinion from the real issue: to get a treaty that could lead to disarmament." On the contrary, I was attempting to divert public opinion to the real issue, which is the technological progress of the U.S. For two years our advance in nuclear technology has been stopped by the moratorium on tests. Meantime the progress of the Soviet Union-so one must assume, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary-has continued unchecked and uncontrolled...