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...once thought to be, that some Communist rulers are acceptable to him, and that America's reluctance to liberate the Eastern European "captive nations" does not mean abandoning them to slavery. Premier Khruschev, by his long and amiable visit to Yugoslavia a few months ago, santioned a looser, less ideological, and less beligerent bloc...
Sticking point is Nasser's insistence on a single political party for the whole U.A.R., modeled on his own Arab Socialist Union in Egypt. Since this would swallow up and probably destroy the Baath movement, Baathists have held out for a looser, more representative system, including the Baath-created National Front in Iraq, and the Baathist-Nasserite Unionist Front in Syria. In the end, Nasser would probably have his way on this, as on other limitations to political democracy. A Cairo spokesman explained, in a phase definitely not borrowed from U.S. democracy, that "freedom will be guaranteed...
...Cordoba University in Argentina, rioting students refused to obey the school's administrators and demanded a voice in running things. They asked for relaxed entrance requirements, looser attendance rules, the virtual elimination of tuition. To eliminate narrow-minded professors who preached the dogma of the oligarchs, they also called for review of professorial qualifications...
...city's already close rein on profit hospitals: now they will get only month-to-month licenses, which means far more frequent inspections. Though no such penetrating study has yet been made outside New York City, medical experts noted that across the country hospital codes are generally looser. Nationwide hospital treatment is generally no better than it is in New York, and in many places, worse...
...York City, of all places. He has carefully cultivated Congressmen and housewives alike. Even Charles Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which claims to represent about 40% of the nation's farmers, warmly admires Freeman, although he is the Secretary's archfoe, wants looser controls for the farmer. Says Shuman: "Secretary Freeman is a very personable man and a very hard worker. He is an excellent salesman of his viewpoint...