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...government is even more widespread. It was far too early to predict the impact of all this on the coming elections, which will probably take place next year. But Macmillan hardly welcomed the demonstrations on top of all the other recent bad news: three by-election reverses in a fortnight, and a new Gallup poll report on voter preference showing that the Labor Party holds a record 16.5% lead over the Tories...
Provoking the outcry was a rumble that started in Bonn fortnight ago when rebellious members of the Bundestag rounded up enough votes to reverse the government's cancellation of a juicy $20 million Soviet pipe order. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rushed back home from a Lake Como vacation on the eve of the balloting, managed to avoid humiliating defeat only by ordering his Christian Democrats to stay off the floor, thus causing the lack of a quorum. Der Alte's last-ditch maneuver proved his solid support of the U.S., which, unlike most of its allies, attaches great strategic...
When Turkey's Premier Ismet Inonu finally let his old enemy ex-President Celal Bayar out of jail for medical treatment fortnight ago, he figured the least he should get was a little gratitude from the opposition Justice Party. Instead, Bayar's noisy supporters turned the occasion into a week-long political demonstration against the government...
Hilton Hotels International, which already operates 13 hotels in 11 foreign countries, will open up a new 30-story, $22 million London Hilton in a fortnight. And it will launch six more hotels abroad this year-in Athens, Hong Kong, Montreal, Rome, Rotterdam, and Tokyo. Intercontinental Hotels, a subsidiary of Pan American, plans to add nine new hotels to its present 14 before year's end. They will be in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Frankfurt, Vienna, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, and at Abidjan on the Ivory Coast...
Abdullah Tariki is in and out of Cairo frequently, helping organize arms shipments to Saudi Arabian dissidents by air and across the long, empty border with Kuwait. Nasser has won over Saudi Ara bia's Ambassador to West Germany, who resigned a fortnight ago in protest at his country's failure to institute reforms. At least six other Saudi ambassadors are sympathetic to Nasser's cause...