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Under Brazil's constitution, the President can petition Congress to declare a state of siege in the event of "grave internal disturbances or when there is evidence that disturbances are about to erupt." The words precisely described the chaotic state of affairs in Latin America's biggest nation last week, and President Joao Goulart made it official. Unable to cope with any of the major crises -and few of the small ones-he asked the Brazilian Congress to proclaim a 30-day state of siege...
...congratulated for your article on "The Dangers of Militancy" [July 19]. Although one can see the Negroes' reasons for bitterness, he must still be disheartened when he sees antiwhite prejudice erupt into violence just as he thought the end of the tunnel was in sight...
Kennedy, disturbed by the Saturday bombings of a Negro motel and the home of Dr. King's brother and the subsequent rioting by thousands of Negroes, sent troops to bases near Birmingham for use if riots erupt again, the Associated Press reported...
...Plain of Jars, Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma managed to arrange a shaky cease-fire between the Pathet Lao and Kong Le's neutralists. Though sporadic artillery duels still pockmarked the plain, there were no outright Red attacks, and the neutralists lost no new territory. But hostilities threatened to erupt from another quarter. Around the perimeter of the plain, right-wing General Phoumi Nosavan was reinforcing his positions, and in the foothills behind the Pathet Lao lines, tough, well-armed Meo tribesmen, who have no love for the Reds, posed a dangerous threat to Communist supply routes from North Viet...
...ultraviolet spectrometer, about the size and shape of a window box, will provide new information about the solar flares that erupt now and then from the sun's atmosphere, appearing as tongues of luminous gas flicking outward around sun spots. During a flare, clouds of ionized hydrogen gas--protons and electrons--shoot out, filling interplanetary space with intense radiation. When these clouds encounter the earth and pass through the earth's magnetic field into the polar regions, they produce the northern lights, and cause short-wave radio transmission to fade or black...