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There are good reasons for guarded hope. Many new elements, some constructive, some negative, explain the relative quiescence of the black ghetto this summer. Among them...
...wife Marie served as county school superintendent for 38 years until her retirement last June, and still remains president of the Citizens Bank of Jackson, the county seat. Their son John is a state senator. Their daughter, Mrs. Treva Turner Howell, continues the old family tradition of doing good for the poor while doing well politically-something the massive poverty program has made rather easy. She administers the local poverty effort, sowing federal largesse and reaping a bumper crop of votes for the county Democratic organization headed by her husband, Jeff Davis Howell...
There were other puzzling aspects. While Radio Tripoli proclaimed "a revolutionary Libya, a socialist Libya," representatives of the 40-odd foreign oil companies (38 of them American) were assured on two separate occasions that their investments were safe. U.S., British and French diplomats heard promises of friendship and good faith. At the British airbase at El Adem, near Tobruk, and at the huge, $100 million Wheelus airbase, manned by some 3,000 Americans, the commanders tactfully suspended training flights, and the new regime requested that the flights remain suspended "temporarily." In every case, the spokesmen for the new regime were...
Docile King. Only in education had King Idris' government done a good job-and that may have backfired. When new schools were built, there were not enough competent Libyan teachers to staff them. The shortage was eased by importing Egyptians, many of whom were aflame with Nasserite notions of Arab unity and socialism. During the brief periods when the curfew was lifted last week, young men in Tripoli swarmed out to cheer the revolution, and schoolgirls built triumphal arches of branches and flowers on scores of streets. Libyan embassies in Damascus, Rome and Athens were seized by young Libyan...
...launched against critics of the military. Last week, the prospect of even a limited return to civilian rule abruptly vanished. President Arthur da Costa e Silva, 66, suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak. Physicians said his prognosis was "fairly good," meaning that in time he may recover partially. But his hopes of announcing on Sept. 7, Brazil's Independence Day, a revised constitution and reopening Congress had been dashed...