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...meeting of African party leaders in Dahomey called upon France to help her territories form a "United States of Africa." De Gaulle apparently would have the West African territories separate states affiliated with France. For all their protests, Africans were careful not to ask for too much too soon, lest France cut off its vital economic aid. What Africa really wanted, explained Deputy Dicko earnestly, "is independence in association with France, not independence-secession...
...rack up a new continental "third force" under French leadership (see FOREIGN NEWS). At home there was pressure from State Department elements and congressional Democrats for a "more positive" approach to the U.S.S.R. that usually involved concessions to placate neutralist opinion. The Pentagon, on the other hand, was restless lest the diplomats tie the U.S.'s hands-and the very real strength of the deployed U.S. Armed Forces-by agreeing to negotiate too much and to make unnecessary concessions: "We've got 'em by the tail. Don't let 'em go." But Secretary Dulles...
...Lest any scholars chuck their books into the bay, the paper noted that laborers were required to be able to lift 140 lbs., and that so many applicants wanted laborers' jobs that the city has no plans to hold any more examinations for two years. For weak-backed or stubbornly intellectual students, there was one note of cheer: if they studied long enough to become a psychiatric social service worker, they could eventually earn more ($525 a month) than the city's laborers, although they would have to start lower...
Outraged by this secular trespass on rabbinical authority, and fearful lest the new policy encourage "mixed" marriages, two orthodox members of Ben-Gurion's Cabinet resigned. Last week the National Religious Party introduced a motion of noconfidence. "We can retreat from the peninsula of Sinai," said one leader, "but not from the law of Sinai." Ben-Gurion won the vote of confidence...
Hidden Step. For all her declination toward the horizontal, Sally Jay is not all bed. In her ruefully recounted odyssey among the oddballs, she is often comically appealing. Desperately worried lest she be mistaken for the sort of girl tourist who debarks with a guidebook and a six-month supply of toilet paper, Sally Jay manages a world-weary yawn even when she feels like yipping for joy. She thanks an Italian seducer who wants to marry her to get a nonexistent dowry. Why? "For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it." Only when she falls...