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...moment, it looked as if the cold war had reached flash point in Burundi. The tiny African nation had been the biggest base for Red Chinese subversion on the continent. Fortnight ago, when moderate Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe was installed to check Peking's rising influence, nobody doubted that the Chinese would respond. Then the Premier was gunned down on the steps of a Bujumbura hospital. But the man who was arrested was a local African employed as a stenotypist in the U.S. embassy. Immediately, the noisy cry echoed through Africa: "Imperialist plot...
...Fortnight ago, an anti-Hindi rally in Madras denounced the "imposition of Hindi" as "discriminatory tyranny." Other southerners even charged "Hindi imperialism," and a Madras political party planned to spend Republic Day in mourning. Last week in Bengali-speaking West Bengal, trucks bearing license plates in Hindi were ordered off roads on the plea that cops were unable to read them-obviously a deliberate and calculated harassment of Hindistate shipping...
...their grievances, the welfare workers' unions demanded a probably excessive $950 raise in starting salaries, a maximum of $9,000 a year after six years' service, and a reduction in case loads. The city offered a probably niggardly increase of $300 a year and little else. Result: fortnight ago the investigators called a strike...
...most famed case in France reached the courts fortnight ago. Last March, Judge André Heilbronner, a member of the Conseil d'Etat, which is roughly equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, was dragged from his Citroën by Electrician Jean Le Bihan and beaten unmercifully. Le Bihan's wife joined in with the high heel of one of her shoes. When arrested, Le Bihan claimed that the judge's car had cut him off. In an effort to impress Frenchmen with the need to end such violence, Le Bihan was given ten months in jail...
Even this was unpopular. Fortnight ago, at what was intended to be an off-the-record background meeting with foreign correspondents, Dean Rusk suggested that the Germans might really be the last to want fresh negotiations with the Russians, since this would inevitably involve discussion of West Germany's role in NATO and the future boundaries of a united Germany. Cruelly accurate, Rusk's words touched off a storm. In Bonn, the Free Democrats' Bundestag Vice President Thomas Dehler warned that Germany was being "sacrificed" to Atlantic policy. Christian Democrat Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel cried that Germany...