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...party democracy is often hard to tell from no-party dictatorship in Africa, Somalia is an exuberant exception. Election day brought 1,000,000 Somalis to the polls to choose among 21 political parties, including one fringe group running on the single fervent conviction that the country should import only Fiats, to ease the shortage of auto parts. If the proliferation of parties resembled the nightmare of French politics before De Gaulle, the Somalis' fist-swinging, rock-throwing, vote-early-and-often electioneering style seemed more like vintage Chicago. With African differences...
...additional equipment" and provide more American combat advisers if necessary. While reporting "clear and unmistakable" evidence that the Viet Cong guerrillas are directed from Red North Viet Nam, Johnson did not follow up previous hints that the U.S. might carry the war to the north. Instead, he expressed the fervent hope that the new Premier, General Nguyen Khanh, will win the war in his own bailiwick, praised him for acting "vigorously and effectively...
...Guatemala's President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes was ousted by a military junta last spring. Despite the fact that Ydigoras is a long and fervent foe of Communism, the junta saw the possibility that Communists would take over in approaching elections. The new government got quick U.S. recognition and now, with free elections promised, is promoting a string of democratic reforms...
...average-by offering some of the liveliest reading fare in the country. When not venting its spleen on its favorite villain ("Killer Khrushchev," "the butcher of Hungary and Ukraine," "Red Hitler"), the News indulges its own peeves, such as the United Nations ("throw the bums out"), or directs a fervent plea to American ingenuity to solve a serious technical problem: how to keep small boys' trousers zippered all the way up. Joe Patterson is dead. But in handpicked successors such as News President Francis M. Flynn, the captain made sure that his irrepressible and incorrigible tabloid would...
...existence. De Gaulle is also reported considering a referendum to switch interim powers from the head of the Senate to the President of the far more representative National Assembly. This would neatly displace Monnerville as provisional chief of the government in favor of Assembly President Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a fervent and able Gaullist...