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...disease first showed up in the port city of Rostock fortnight ago, was traced to a shipment of butter imported from Red China. Muttered one stricken East Berliner: "It's a typical disease of the Wall. Before the Wall went up, we could at least buy green vegetables in West Berlin, but all winter long we got practically no vegetables, and when this dysentery bug appeared, we had no resistance...
...government began eroding such measures of "Arab socialism" as land reform and nationalization. Fortnight ago, the Syrian officer corps overthrew the civilian government and threw the President and his top officials in jail on charges of "corruption and sabotage." But the army corps was not united on what next. Some just wanted a left-of-center government free of Egyptian domination. A younger group of officers, especially those in the Aleppo garrison in the north, wanted a rebirth of the union with Egypt as well as a return to Nasser's all-out socialist policies...
...last year before Castro, Cuba had 6,600 physicians; since then, 2,000 doctors have fled Cuba, and 1,500 of them are in the U.S. A fortnight ago, in a Miami auditorium, the "Faculty in Exile" of the University of Havana's once highly rated School of Medicine graduated 152 exiled doctors who had taken its refresher course in medicine and qualifying courses in English. After that, the doctors took the tough screening examination set up by the U.S. Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates; about 80% are expected to pass. Since most states make U.S. citizenship...
...Fortnight ago at the gala International Auto Show in Geneva, both companies unveiled the new cars which they expect to put in even more U.S. garages. Volvo showed a stylish new station wagon (less than $3,000) for suburbanites; Saab offered a hot sports model ($3,000) well calculated to capitalize on the U.S. driver's growing fondness for pizazz. So high was public enthusiasm at the Geneva showings that both Saab and Volvo are confidently looking forward to their biggest spring orders ever. Neither new car, however, will go on sale in the U.S. until it has been...
...Only a fortnight ago, Ford Motor...