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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strengths make the big nations muscle-bound and the United Nations grows ever more helpless in preventing conflict, the small non-nuclear countries have found limited wars to be a functional means of settling disputes. The very possession of doomsday weaponry by the U.S. and Russia has forestalled the main event, but lesser powers feel free to slug it out in dozens of other arenas...
...last week's Arab League Meeting in Casablanca, but only twelve showed up. The absentee was Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who sent his regrets in the form of a 10,000-word memo randum intended to torpedo, if not the whole affair, at least its main personality, Egypt's Abdel Gamal Nasser...
Blind to Danger? Thus far, Peru's edgy military has kept its mind on the Communists. Last week a force of 600 troops was closing in on the main body of guerrillas, estimated at about 500 men, in a mountainous area 300 miles east of Lima. But the military men are anxious for a clear indication of Belaúnde's leadership. "Most of us do not want another military dictatorship,' said one general, "but if the civilians are blind to the Communist danger, we would feel duty-bound to step...
...Destroy Them All." By last week the bees had invaded Rio's main busniess Street, Rio Branco. A swarm like a great black watermelon was hanging in front of the Armed Forces Military Command building, and African bees were attacking civilians after driving sentries away from their machine-gun Posts. Reported casualties: more than 60 'Cariocas" stung and a couple of bees that had been bold enough to dive bomb cars and buses...
...movie's main handicap is that Director Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark) has put it together like a hobbyist assembling a model kit into an authentic reproduction of a 1908 Hupmobile, "Comedy is a science," he says. "The only way to learn a science is to study, and the only way to study is to look at what the old masters did and take from them. Race is an accumulation of dozens of the great comedy clich...