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...Communists took over in China, but the status of Kowloon's six acres was not changed. The British were content to claim authority over Kowloon City while staying out of it, letting the jungle govern itself. But last month, when a police constable was attacked and a heroin-parlor attendant stabbed to death, exasperated Hong Kong cops finally moved in on the town. In one night they arrested 150 people, and nine-man patrols began nightly dawn-to-dusk raids, concentrating on the narcotics trade...
...million. How will they be handled? These people must work, they must live somewhere. There is only one way out-we are faced with the choice of either giving the white man his own area and the Bantu his, or having one state in which the Bantu will govern." Verwoerd's solution: a series of separate and remote tribal "Bantustans" that will, under "white guidance," be granted a degree of self-government. The scarcity of available land and the staggering cost of uprooting millions of unwilling Africans from the glitter of the cities give the scheme an aura...
...Sukarno himself is less a strongman than a symbol. He must rule in partnership, and only two organizations-the army and the Communist Party-have the efficiency and administrative knack to help him govern. In naming his ten-man "inner" Cabinet last week, Sukarno clearly chose the army. Not a single post went to a Communist or a fellow traveler. Able ex-Premier Djuanda was named First Minister and Finance Minister. The army got two plums: the important Ministry of Security and Defense went to Army Commander Lieut. General A. Haris Nasution and the Production Ministry to Colonel Suprajogi...
This closeness results from the "conflict of issues--the medium of law and its source--" is also what comprises diplomacy, the ambassador said. He criticized the term "East-West conflict" and preferred to describe the world situation as one in which people are free to govern themselves against a world of a single political system of terror and frustration of democratic processes...
...Puerto Rico is a new kind of state, both in the sense of the United States Federal System and in the general sense of a people organized to govern themselves," Munoz pointed out in his second Godkin lecture last night...