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...Fortnight ago, a serious clash occurred when a patrol landed at the village of Lokano, on the west coast of the island of New Ireland. There officials found 100 natives sitting quietly on the beach in front of their huts. All went well until the police arrested one tax delinquent. Then, crying "The only authority we recognize is President Johnson," the islanders grabbed spears, clubs and stones, which they had hidden in the sand, and attacked the Australians. Battered and bleeding, the tax collectors fled to their boats, injuring themselves further as they stumbled over the sharp coral. Three days...
...latest trouble started fortnight ago when the head of the King's military household, General Constantine Dovas, suggested that the Greek army be renamed the "Royal Hellenic Army" as a wedding gift to the King. Defense Minister Petros Garoufalias approved, embodied the change in a decree. After all, the navy, air force and gendarmerie already bore the appellation "royal" in their titles, and Constantine was not only by law the commander in chief of the army but in fact had their loyalty -more than he could expect from any of the other factions in the Greek body politic. Nonetheless...
...sure draw at the movie box office. Disney, who considers his own name insurance enough, snapped her up for Mary Poppins; then Producer Marty Ransohoff, knowing that he could only profit by following Disney, cast Julie opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily, which opens in a fortnight or so. Twentieth Century-Fox was emboldened enough to leap into the act, too, putting Julie to work on the film version of The Sound of Music. Suddenly, at 29, she has become a thoroughgoing movie star, in demand all over town...
...skunk," in Navy parlance, is any unidentified ship that pops up on a radarscope. Last week a bad odor lingered over four such radar contacts. They were the blips that appeared in the Tonkin Gulf a fortnight ago and drew the fire of two patrolling U.S. destroyers-and, since then, the fire of innumerable Republican sharpshooters. Were the skunks really North Vietnamese torpedo boats or gunboats, as the destroyer captains believed? If so, were they really indulging in "hostile" behavior-preparing to attack U.S. vessels as they had on two earlier occasions? What damage was really done? The Pentagon...
...only one in a rising chorus of criticism directed at classic Marxist economics. Lately Pravda and other Soviet publications have carried articles by economists branding the Soviet system "obsolete" and advocating a more or less free market system. Sergei Afanasyev, a deputy premier of one of the Soviet republics, fortnight ago came out for "material stimuli" as a necessary mainspring of the Russian economy. Lev Leontyev, an economist of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, from which initial opposition to Liberman's theories came, recently advocated the profit motive and payment of interest as "key instruments of economic control...