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...help avert a war-or be ready when it comes-Feisal wants to call an Islamic summit conference in Mecca, and has won support from Iran, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, Tunisia and the Persian Gulf sheikdoms. "We are seeking only cooperation and solidarity," says Feisal. "All states are invited to heed the call, and President Nasser as a leader is, of course, invited...
...Africa. Its disciplined, indoctrinated population, which constitutes a quarter of the human race, is told ceaselessly that the U.S. is "the world's chief enemy." To read the intentions of this sullen giant and to formulate its policy toward it, the U.S. obviously and vitally needs to heed the ancient dictum: "Know thine enemy." Knowledge is the basis of policy-but just how much does the U.S. know, and how much can it find out, about a nation of such implacable hostility and resolute secrecy...
...been worn thin by all the jabberwocky about inflation and taxes, but since January the industry has been hit with everything but a ten-ton truck. To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead forgo big, postponable purchases-such as cars-to save their declining dollars for necessities. On top of that, 250,000 potential buyers have been shipped to Viet Nam, and Stateside draftees and 1A civilians...
...dear," a husband chirruped to his wife on a Havana soap opera, "when I go to the cane field and really work for my country, all my aches and pains disappear." Every village, factory, business, union and government agency received a quota, and any Cuban who failed to heed the call risked losing his job. Out they came last week, 1,000,000 strong, nearly paralyzing by their absence every government agency and private business. In the swing with Castro were his little brother Raul, who heads up the armed forces, President Osvaldo Dorticós, Foreign Minister Raul...
...Boston police did not heed this warning. By contrast, the Cambridge police shepherded the marchers from the Cambridge Common to the Mass. Ave. bridge with admirable control. They stationed men at every possible trouble point along the way. Though it was evident that their sympathies were not with the protestors, they brooked absolutely no trouble from a group of about 50 pro war demonstrators who marched the whole way a few yards ahead of the protestors...