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...trouble goes back to 1959, when the British finished a jet airstrip on the southern island of Gan to link their Middle Eastern bases with Singapore and Australia. In the process, they accidentally subsidized an uprising; most of Can's labor force came from Addu Atoll, which had rebelled against the islands' central government at Male, 300 miles to the north. To protest taxation and "other repressive measures," the rebels had even formed an independent "Republic" on their little atoll...
With their Gan base jeopardized, the British were proceeding carefully. But Afif would scarcely surrender of his own accord; in the past, it was not unknown for a ruler of the Maldives to take care of a wrongdoer by cutting off his hands...
...might think that Gaston Defferre, French Socialist candidate for President and the only man so far to challenge Charles de Gaulle in the next election, would be a prime TV news subject in his homeland. But when he be gan his campaign with a series of rallies in Bordeaux last month, not a glimpse of his face appeared on French video screens. Last week when a television interview with Defferre, shot by a West German network, was made available to France's state broadcasting monopoly, Radiodiffusion, Television Franchise, the film wound up on the cutting-room floor. R.T.F...
...office, Gimpex imported petroleum products, flour and other staples, using Cuban and Russian ships. Last July Gimpex actually managed some indirect aid from Cuba. The company sold $1,000,000 worth of railroad ties to Cuba, and the money-paid in advance-was lent by Gimpex to Ja-gan's government...
After that, Chicago newspapers be gan to tone down their stories of local racial incidents. In 1955 the City News Bureau spelled out its own policy, which has been taken over as an informal code by the mass media in the city. The code calls for responsible treatment of stories, brevity, the absence of superlatives or inflammatory adjectives, and warns reporters to avoid use of the word riot. "If riots actually occur," says the code, "we should be in a position that no charge of riot incitement can be placed against us." Radio and TV stations, which tend to make...