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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American business and political leaders fawning all over a delegate of international gangsterism. Do any of our business, industrial or political leaders think of the aggression against small states, mass murders, purges, brutal suppression of dissident minorities, repeated doublecrosses-to say nothing of the long and ever-growing list of agreements and treaties broken, deliberately and with considerable malice aforethought, by Communists...
...Since 1939 he has represented the hill-and-dale Second District, which also boasts such place names as Morning Sun, Evening Shade and Oil Trough. Stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), gracious Wilbur Mills has a first-rate fiscal mind, is a Rayburn protege, ranks high on the list of possible future Speakers. But he is in a dangerous political situation: with Arkansas due to lose two Representatives after the 1960 census. Mills cannot risk being gerrymandered out of Congress by a legislature under the segregationist thumb of Governor Orval Faubus. Mills therefore has recently taken a strong segregationist...
...justify their jabs at the U.S., Garcia & Co. cited a long list of grievances, old and new. The U.S., they complained, had still not settled a $972 million "omnibus claim" covering, among other things, damage done during the World War II fighting in the Philippines. It had yet to come through with the bulk of the $125 million in credits and development funds promised Garcia during his visit to Washington last June. After four years of Philippine pressure and 2½ years of on-again, off-again negotiations, the status of U.S. military bases in the Philippines remains unsettled. Most...
...plan aims at reforming the parliament before the next election. Of parliament's 300 members, half will be selected from "functional" groups (trade unions, business organizations, women's clubs, the armed forces), the other half nominated as prospective members of parliament by political parties. The functional list will then be screened by a government coordinating agency and passed on to Sukarno himself, who has the authority to arrange the order in which candidates will appear on the ballot...
...border in Argentina. In December they scared him enough to make him black out the palace, send troops to the frontier, get the Argentine government to impound two Beechcraft planes that seemed set to bomb Paraguay. In Buenos Aires, Paraguayan exiles announced that they were drawing up a list of "war criminals" to be executed "after the liberation...