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...Madrid hotel fortnight ago, 90 prominent Spaniards sat down to a dinner duly registered with the police as a monarchist lawyers' meeting to discuss professional technicalities. In fact, many of the diners were not lawyers at all, and at least one was noted for republican sympathies. And when the speeches began, the technicalities of Spanish law were hardly mentioned. While police observers sat by, pencils racing, Joaquin de Satrústegúi, a wealthy Basque lawyer, launched into a go-minute attack on the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Franco, declared Lawyer Satrústeg...
...Unlike many past shortages in Red China, these are not the result of a Spartan decision to export agricultural products in order to purchase machinery abroad. In the past few months Peking's trade offensive in Southeast Asia-which seriously worried the Japanese-has begun to falter badly. Fortnight ago Mao's government, despite its need for foreign exchange, canceled a contract to supply British firms with several thousand tons of cotton and cotton waste, and this breach of contract will jeopardize future negotiations...
Problem No. 1 on Betancourt's list is unemployment. Estimates of the jobless run around 170,000, or about 9% of the total work force. The problem bedevils Betancourt most in Caracas (pop. 1,000,000), where an estimated 70,000 are out of work. Just a fortnight ago, a few hundred demonstrators snowballed into a wild march of 15,000 unemployed toward the presidential palace. Only tear gas stopped them short. To prevent similar embarrassment during inauguration week, the lame-duck government banned demonstrations of any kind...
...triumphal tour to Caracas a fortnight ago, Castro sent Venezuelans into wild spasms of cheers when he told them: "Everywhere I hear the chant 'Trujillo next! Trujillo next!'" At Caracas' Central University, Castro himself tossed the first coin into a hat to launch a drive for $300,000 to start an invasion. Only 155 miles away from Trujilloland, bearded members of Castro's 26th of July Movement are already gazing longingly at maps showing the Dominican Republic's Cordillera Central, a forest region much like Cuba's Sierra Maestra. As Dominican exiles plot...
...really learned how to act; he turned in a fine TV performance in Playhouse go's Old Man. In 1955, his second marriage had broken up, and this year, the court, after examining wife Betty Ann's record, awarded custody of his four children to Hayden. Fortnight ago Betty Ann got a court order enjoining Hayden from taking the children out of California. But Hayden had made his move. Quietly, with friends and with some like-minded fellows he had recruited through ads, he had gone about his preparations. Though his ex-wife got a warrant...