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TIME readers, at least, should not have been caught by surprise at the headline news about the crisis in Laos. For months past, our reporters have been reporting the futility, the pathos, the menace of the developing news from Laos. Fortnight ago, TIME captioned its cover story on King Savang Vatthana "Laos: Test of U.S. Inten tions." And in one of the first cover stories of 1961, TIME, describing the job of Pacific Commander Harry Donald Felt, concluded that "Laos, where events tumbled forward with sweep-second hand relentlessness, was per haps the least attractive theater in which Felt would...
Things are so bad in Communist East Germany that even the Communists are talking publicly about it. Fortnight ago, submitting East Germany's 1961 economic goals to the party's Central Committee, top Politburo Planner Bruno Leuschner asked rhetorically: "Do we have difficulties?" Dourly, he answered himself: "Ja-wohl, we do." He ticked them off: "Unsatisfactory raw material supplies." "no more labor reserves," "failure to achieve a continuous supply of consumer goods...
...them is the future of the U.N. operations boss in the Congo. Indian Diplomat Rajeshwar Dayal, whose inflexible policies and personal prejudices have won him the enmity of every Congolese leader from President Joseph Kasavubu on down. When Dayal was called back to New York for "consultation" fortnight ago, most Congolese happily assumed that Hammarskjold was planning to replace him. But last week Hammarskjold ordered Dayal back to the Congo. The Secretary-General could scarcely repudiate his Senior Indian aide at the very moment that India, reversing its previous policy, had just sent an entire 4,700-man brigade...
...troubled Portuguese African colony of Angola, 150 settlers have been slaughtered in the past fortnight in a rash of terrorist raids led by Angola blacks who live near the Congolese border. Already Portuguese Dictator Antonio Salazar's forces have evacuated 3,500 terrified whites from northern Angola. Thirty thousand Portuguese soldiers crash about in pelting rainstorms, hunting the sizable terrorist bands thought to be still at large...
...factory to devise a special marmalade packed with calories and vitamins. He designed boots armored with three layers of outer leather; he bought special plastic helmets and tough, extra-thin ropes. Keeping their plans a tight secret, the men practiced all winter on rocky, ice-coated walls. A fortnight ago the four slipped out of their hotel before dawn and tackled der Eiger...