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...This feud set the stage for the bitterest election campaign in the island's history. Lined up against the Labor Party were five other parties, all acceptable to Archbishop Gonzi. While Mintoff ran on a hate-Britain platform that urged an independent, neutralist Malta, his chief opponents, the Nationalists, advocated independence within the Commonwealth. (The island currently has self-government except in defense and foreign affairs, which are supervised by a British high commissioner.) But in the months leading up to last week's election, foreign policy issues were overshadowed by the emotional struggle between church and state...
Kennan has conducted a running feud with Borba, the party sheet, and the government daily Politika. (He reads five papers in three languages daily.) "Shocked" by consistent distortion of events in the U.S.-which has pumped $2.1 billion in aid into the country, with its allies takes 60% of all Yugoslav exports-Kennan has fired off five angry letters to the papers. Their editors were flattered to be addressed by Professor Kennan, failed to print the letters, but last fortnight Borba's editor in chief paid him the rare honor, for a Westerner, of giving a dinner party...
...Lost Argument. India's victory was hailed by the Afro-Asians and the Communists. From Russia, Nikita Khrushchev cabled Nehru his approval. Momentarily abandoning its border feud with India. Red China announced its "resolute support." No word of protest was heard in India. Draped in a cloak of injured innocence, the Indian press charged that Britain in Suez behaved far worse than India; conveniently forgotten was the fact that Britain bowed to a U.N. cease fire and withdrew from the territory it had taken. The Times of India voiced the surprise of Indian diplomats that the Portuguese authorities...
...world's leading soap and gathered together an industrial complex based mainly on products from fats and oils. Meanwhile, in an overlapping segment of the fat and oil industry, two Dutch margarine-making families -the Van den Berghs and Jurgens-battled each other in a Hatfield-McCoy feud for years until, exhausted, they finally merged. Then, indulging in the fine European preference for cartels over competition, the Dutch and British companies merged to form Unilever in 1929 to "stabilize" the fat and oil market...
...Reuther as an energetic troublemaker. Reuther attributes many of organized labor's problems-such as declining membership and jurisdictional disputes between craft and industrial unions-to Meany's lackadaisical leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Last week, at labor's Bal Harbour convention, the Meany-Reuther feud was a top conversational subject among the delegates...