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...Association for the Advancement of Colored People called Stokeley Carmichael's kind of Black Power "racism in reverse." He deplores the attitude of the black radical fringe, which has lost all faith in the democratic process, and is convinced that it must be scrapped. "I can't help viewing the unilateral black philosophy as being as open to question as the unilateral white system," he says. But Wilkins takes an entirely different attitude toward the more respectable approaches to black consciousness, pride and influence and points out that this is what the N.A.A.C.P. has been championing for decades...
...American and several European companies are studying the possible construction of auto-assembly plants in the Congo. The Union Minière mining empire, now nationalized and called Gecomin, is operating almost at full capacity; half of the company's white technicians have stayed on to help run it. Belgium has agreed to resume its $70 million aid program, which it suspended after the Belgian embassy was stormed. About half of the 1,200 Belgian teachers, whose exodus from the Congo crippled the country's schools and three universities, are now planning to come back to areas where...
Firm Price. The dollar is the only currency of a major world power that has escaped formal devaluation since the end of World War II. The U.S. supplies more than half of the gold in the London pool which was set up in 1961 to help stabilize the price of the metal within a few cents of its official U.S. price: $35 per oz. For 33 years that fixed price has been the cornerstone of the free world's international monetary arrangements. The U.S. is pledged to swap gold for dollars, at that price, to any foreign government that...
Denmark devalued less than Britain: 7.9%. It was a half measure intended to help Danish farmers keep their vital outlets for butter and bacon in Britain while penalizing its much larger but import-dependent industries as little as possible. New Zealand, with its whole economy already weakened by falling wool prices, devalued 19.45%. Ceylon devalued 20%, and at week's end tiny Iceland took the biggest...
Before a National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Chicago last week, the Federal Communications Commission's Nicholas Johnson exhorted the industry to help "close the understanding gap" that divides white and black Americans. "Broadcasting," he said, "must take the lead in that effort." Johnson quoted a recent study reporting that nearly two-thirds of ghetto homes had TV sets and 100% had radios, while only 14% read newspapers...