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...Costa Rica, elections were held Feb. 6, but not until a fortnight ago, after the vote was certified, did opposition parties finally concede victory. The winner: José Joaquin Trejos, a 49-year-old university professor who edged out Daniel Oduber, 44, the candidate of the ruling National Liberation Party, by a mere 4,200 votes. For Costa Rica, which has no army, the election was only one more in a long chain of peaceful choices at the ballot box; only twice in this century has a Costa Rican President taken power by force. Backed by a coalition of small...
...fortnight ago, Bob Jones Jr. denounced Graham as a false teacher who "is doing more harm to the cause of Jesus Christ than any living man." What angered Jones particularly was that Graham's crusade sent people making decisions for Christ "back to unbelieving churches, to false teachers, and Unitarians"-that is, to the churches of their own choice-instead of guiding them exclusively into fundamentalist churches, where they "can be fed the word of God." Worse yet to the Joneses, who are dedicated to the inerrancy of the Bible and total segregation in their school, Graham betrayed Scripture...
Lost cause or no, Nkrumah was doing what he could to recover his job from the army officers who had deposed him fortnight ago. Flitting from Peking to Moscow, he put in a plaintive demand for troops to restore him in command, then, in desperation, flew off to Guinea to see his friend Sékou Tour...
...virtual monopoly on Ghana's import trade and was the only automobile insurance company that Ghanaian civil servants were allowed to use. Unless he could get his hands on the money, Nkrumah might quickly starve to death. All he had with him when he flew to Peking fortnight...
...Process. Chandler appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that the Judicial Council had usurped Congress' authority to remove judges and had denied him due process by not giving him a hearing. Fortnight ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay the Judicial Council's "temporary" order, with the understanding that Chandler would be granted a hearing. In an angry minority dissent Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas found that the Judicial Council had, nonetheless, effectively "removed" Judge Chandler from his office. "The council," said the dissenters, "is completely without legal authority to issue any such order...