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Rademaekers, who has been working on Iron Curtain affairs since 1955 and was in Hungary during the 1956 revolt, dipped into East Berlin twelve times last week-crossing the border at dawn, dusk and midnight-walking, driving, and once taking a ghostly ride through East Berlin's heavily guarded U-bahn (subway) stations. He also scouted the length of the East-West Berlin border from Teltow Canal in the south to Tegeler Forst in the north, scrambling over rubble and through potato patches, often attracting the nervous attention of the armed border guards. At week's end, Washington...
...than proof of Bourguiba's weakness. And when Bourguiba announced that if France would agree to negotiate its eventual withdrawal from Bizerte, he would not press for a U.N. debate, the confident French took their time about replying. An official source said casually that in view of present East-West tension over Berlin, the timetable for the departure of French troops from Bizerte could not be measured in terms of "days, weeks or even months." That left only years...
...acutely aware, the current guerrilla war might get worse before it gets better. Unlike Berlin, where the crisis so far has been only words, South Viet Nam is the arena of East-West confrontation where men are dying in large numbers. The struggle is savage. Just since January the dead on both sides total 2,500?roughly triple the total casualties of all eleven months of fighting in Laos...
...contest for young minds in backward countries, the University of Hawaii's East-West Center should have been an early winner. Billed as a magnet for Asian students, it was first proposed by U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson in 1959-nearly a year before Nikita Khrushchev hatched Moscow's Friendship University (TIME, Jan. 6). Hawaii had the advantage of the island's proud multiracial harmony; Friendship University is a segregated school for Afro-Asians. Yet somehow the Russians scored all the propaganda coups. Hawaii's East-West Center foundered in big talk and bad planning...
...year scholarships, valued at $9,000, including transportation, books, board and room, $50 a month spending money, and a two-month study tour of the mainland. When ground was broken last spring for the first center building, Lyndon Johnson himself jetted in to announce that "the concept of the East-West Center is as broad as the vast Pacific area it will serve." Less cheerful were the students, many of them Moslems who boiled at the cafeteria menu, expressed themselves as "shocked" at the coeds' shorts. Other beefs: unavailable or inadequate courses and the wistful complaint, "This...