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That was a fortnight ago, and not a shot has yet been fired. For all his threats, Sekou Toure apparently has neither the intention nor the manpower to march anywhere. A few scraggly lads from his Revolutionary Youth Movement answered the call to arms and were sent upcountry to drill with brooms and wooden, guns, but Sekou has not dared to call up the 30,000 Guineans who once served in the French army-for fear that they would turn their weapons on him instead. What with West Africa's current epidemic of military coups (five since December), Sekou...
...stand and fight whatever the cost, plus evidences of a mounting buildup of forces now coming directly across the demilitarized zone separating North and South Viet Nam, suggests that Hanoi is desperately in search of a victory. One reflection of this need was the attack on A Shau fortnight ago.-Large Red forces have been moving eastward from the mountainous regions around A Shau along the Laotian border, building base camps and supply depots as they go. In effect, the Communists are shortening their supply lines...
With Britain's general election only a fortnight away, the major polls last week gave Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Party an unprecedented lead-and increased the pressure on the Conservatives to find some issue with which to turn the tide. But Tory Leader Ted Heath was having a tough time...
Still another augury of change in Spain came in Barcelona. Fortnight ago, some 350 students and distinguished intellectuals staged a sit-in at a Capuchin monastery to set up a "Free Student Union" in opposition to the government-controlled University Students' Syndicate. Police surrounded the monastery, shut off the electricity, food supplies and telephone, then waited exactly 45 hours before breaking in to disperse the intellectuals...
Separatist Sikhs. The flame was lit fortnight ago when the powerful Working Committee of the Congress Party caved in to the demands of India's 7,000,000 Sikhs for the creation...