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...electorate, still vote Red in general elections-and the next elections might not be very far away if the nation's latest political crisis is not settled soon. Italy was without a government, thanks to the small Christian Democratic faction which voted down Premier Aldo Moro fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 28). And though President Giuseppe Saragat had asked Moro to reform his Cabinet, the days passed with no news of his success...
...Fortnight ago, Akintola and the Sardauna of Sokoto met secretly in Ibadan, decided to call in the army to crush the growing rebellion. As far as the junior officers were concerned, that was the last straw. They launched their long-planned coup. "Our enemies," said Nzeogwu, "are the political profiteers, the men that seek bribes, those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so they can remain in office as Ministers, tribalists and nepotists, those that have corrupted our society and put the political calendar back...
...Fortnight ago he returned alone. The family soon learned why. From relations in Greece, a letter arrived, telling how Vlachos had lured his daughter-in-law into a Salonika hotel room and raped her. In the poverty-stricken hill towns of Greece, where whole families are sometimes forced to sleep beneath the same blanket, incest and related affairs are not unknown, nor do these proud but ignorant people turn to the law to deal with such delicate matters...
...billion; the productivity growth rate went from 2.7% to 2.9% . Under the revisions, the guideline ceiling ought to be raised to 3.6%. Moreover, businessmen claim with cause that the Administration, while merely grumbling about wage increases, coerces observance of the price ceiling. Thus, when Bethlehem Steel last fortnight tried to raise prices on structural steel by $5 a ton, Johnson ordered all federal agencies to refuse to buy Bethlehem structurals. Yet, while New York's transit workers were winning an infinitely more inflationary contract, Johnson said nothing...
...flying fortnight, the likes of which the world had never seen, mingling mystery and flamboyance, discretion and display in an unorthodox diplomatic maneuver unmistakably stamped L.B.J. On orders from the White House, for the first time in nearly a year, North Viet Nam's skies were free of American fighter-bombers. Instead, jets winged to the four corners of the earth carrying presidential emissaries prospecting for peace in Viet Nam. At first their departures were unannounced, their message a state secret, their destinations sometimes a surprise to themselves-and their hosts...