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...month before the Wisconsin presidential primary, Democratic Governor John Reynolds knew he had trouble on his hands. That was when Reynolds, running as a favorite-son front man for President Johnson, heard that Alabama's Segregationist Governor George Wallace had filed against him. Reynolds promptly canceled a junket to Europe, flew to Washington for advice from Administration leaders, returned home to campaign for all he was worth. As the voting neared, he predicted that Wallace would get no more than 100,000 votes-but even that "would be a catastrophe...
Smith got back to Tanganyika just in time to report that country's own brief rebellion against statesmanlike President Julius Nyerere. In the left-leaning police state of Ghana, meanwhile, there was worse trouble for TIME Correspondent James Wilde, who flew down from Paris to cover the African junket of Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. With the London Observer's Anthony Sampson, Wilde was arrested on the charge that he had tried to pass himself off as Chinese-which would have been a neat trick considering his entirely un-Sinic appearance. The inspector who picked...
...heavily to woo the new nation. It may succeed at least in raising Russia's ante in Africa and Asia. At week's end, as Chou left for Algeria, Nikita Khrushchev was reportedly planning his own swing through Africa. Before visiting Cairo next spring, he may also junket to India and Nepal on Chou's back doorstep. Then it will be Nikita's turn to tell who will bury whom...
...event, neither reason applies to the students under indictment. Their safety was guaranteed by the Cuban government which was anxious to exploit their trip for propaganda purposes. Also, the Cubans paid the entire cost of the junket. Far from bringing dollars to Castro, the trip involved an outflow of pesos from Cuba. By contrast, newspapermen and others whom the State Department allows to go to Cuba spend money there...
...socialist revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro could not have said it better, but for his pur poses the propaganda was far more valuable, coming as it did from 58 youth ful, presumably open-minded American "students"* who have been making news for a month on a forbidden junket to Cuba. Last week, as the 58 prepared to return home, the U.S. prepared a welcome far hotter than Castro...