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...member of the Lari tribe-his name means "fetish which cannot be grasped" -he was reared by Catholic missionaries and in 1946 ordained a priest. Later, in defiance of orders from his superior, Youlou ran for the French Assembly (he lost) and was suspended by the church, is still forbidden to say Mass. Because of his suspension, he was acclaimed by his countrymen as a victim of discrimination and elected mayor of Brazzaville in 1956. Exploiting Congolese superstitions, he soon had many voters convinced that his personal fetish, a small yellow crocodile, had "the power." With the advent of independence...
...test ban treaty were published, the doubters began to argue that the exemption of underground explosions was the Soviet ace-in-the-hole. Since the Russians have made fewer subterranean tests than the United States, they would be able to catch up in that category while this country was forbidden from atmospheric testing of hydrogen behemoths comparable to the ones the Soviets already have. Secretary McNamara testified we did not need the big bombs, but if we ever did, we could build them without testing them and still be confident they would work...
...Manhattan's St. Mary the Virgin Church only to discover belatedly that they were not in one of Cardinal Spellman's parishes. The ceremony-conscious Anglo-Catholics seem oddly yoked in brotherhood with low-church "Anglo-Baptists," who frown on stained glass and statuary as Biblically forbidden graven images and celebrate austere Communions on plain wooden tables free of candles or crucifix...
...facts of the socialist revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro could not have said it better, but for his pur poses the propaganda was far more valuable, coming as it did from 58 youth ful, presumably open-minded American "students"* who have been making news for a month on a forbidden junket to Cuba. Last week, as the 58 prepared to return home, the U.S. prepared a welcome far hotter than Castro...
...Argentines talk heatedly about oil. At one time, in a burst of nationalist fervor, foreign firms were forbidden from prospecting-only to have the government monopoly (Y.P.F.) do so poorly that most of Argentina's unfavorable trade balance came from importing oil. President Arturo Frondizi allowed foreign oilmen back in 1958. They have saved the nation some $170 million a year in imports by more than doubling oil production to 96 million bbl. annually. But there is also a feeling among many local Latins that contracts with foreign oilmen are too generous...