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...called ARENA and a mild opposition catchall called M.D.B. Early this month, in an indirect election by Congress, ARENA'S presidential candidate-ex-War Minister, Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, 64-swept easily to victory, and is to take office next March. With that accomplished, Castello Branco fortnight ago felt secure enough to draw up another decree and order out of Congress six morefederal Deputies whom he does not like...
...activity was a bear stampede. After selling borrowed shares, bears aim to cover their loans and also make a tidy profit by buying the same stock when prices have declined still lower. Big bears have been following the practice all summer long. Little bears followed and, as of last fortnight, short sales by odd-lotters (selling fewer than 100 shares) reached their highest level in more than 30 years...
Thus, after a secluded fortnight in Woodside, Calif., the wan-looking Illinois Republican announced that he would resume his campaign this week for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Paul Douglas, 74. Both had suspended the race after the Sept. 18 murder of Percy's daughter Valerie-a case that remained a mystery last week-and Percy, 47, went out of his way to thank Douglas for acting "generously, graciously and with understanding...
...even a mission to the White House seemed to stem the anti-Erhard muttering. In fact, as he stepped from the Lufthansa jet that brought him home from Washington a fortnight ago, Erhard was greeted by a blaze of unsettling headlines. They spoke of closed-door meetings among politicians anxious to get his scalp. His own deputy party chairman, Rainer Barzel, had huddled with former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Erhard's severest critic. In a hunting lodge in the Vierherrenwald, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had canvassed powerful C.D.U. state leaders on Erhard's strength in their regions. It remained...
...Beer Trucks. That was not exactly what the Kats had in mind. They had been methodically looting Kisangani's shops. To haul away their booty, the gendarmes demanded not planes but trucks. They should have left well enough alone, for Mobutu fortnight ago turned the new dispute into an excuse to go back on his word. Instead of sending them trucks, he ordered his army to surround Kisangani and crush the Kats once...