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...French. On another occasion, De Gaulle despaired aloud: "How can you govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?" The French, he complains, "think only about stuffing themselves and living better," adding: "This is hardly a national purpose." On the other hand, he shrugs: "Every Frenchman wants to have one or two special privileges. That's his way of showing his passion for equality...
About 80% of those eligible to vote went to the polls, and of those voting, nearly 5,300,000, or 99%, supported the single list. It was a mandate of sorts for Ben Bella, enough for him to begin to govern, but no guarantee that he could abandon his wary habit of sleeping with a pistol handy on his bed table...
...that have to do with active space navigation. Their capsules will maneuver more or less freely, changing their orbits and trying to join other orbiting objects. The new astronauts will carry along their own propulsion systems and navigation instruments, and will wrestle with the strange and complicated forces that govern the motion of bodies in space. Thus, the brains of the .nine young spacemen will have to contain knowledge and skills that have never before been crammed into a human skull...
...wills with the country's fractious Congress, President Joao ("Jango") Goulart and his Prime Minister, Francisco Brochado da Rocha, finally managed to achieve a kind of truce. In the Brasilia capital, Brochado da Rocha bluntly told Congress: "We are living at the door of a revolution. This government lacks the power to govern." That, plus his threat to resign, seemed to sink in. Legislators granted the government a package of emergency powers to keep the country together until next October's congressional elections, plus a promise to vote on returning Brazil from its unworkable parliamentary system...
Military men have long complained that Laotian soldiers will not fight. Political scientists have been exasperated by the Laotians' lighthearted attempts to govern themselves and by their queer habit of having two capitals, a political one at Vientiane and a royal one at Luangpra-bang. Last week it was the turn of diplomats to be amazed by the Laotians-and to discover that the two-capital system has some spectacular advantages...