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...apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record in the tiny Moslem land, the bill passed easily, despite its manifest unpopularity and whatever the legislators' private lapses from the temperance of Mohammed's grace might...
...union with Egypt from 1958 to 1961. The satellites built a number of small projects: cement plants, sugar refineries, a grain elevator and an airfield. But the Russians have been foot-dragging on their own big projects for two chemical factories and a railroad as Syria's manifest political instability (18 governments in 15 years) dawned on them, and completion of the Russian projects is still years away...
...those who take the second view will not "sell out" by working with Establishment forces like the Democratic Party. They will work alone rather than "work into" a sick, hate-ridden White society. They will reject the serpent's advice of most Whites, reject a broad-based coalition, and manifest indifferences to any progress less than radical social upheaval. They will resist what they feel are King's efforts to support a new status...
More Mistakes. The debate following Kosygin's presentation was astonishingly frank. One delegate, to the manifest surprise of the leadership, even mentioned Khrushchev by name, accusing him of the mistake of not facing facts but "presenting the desired as reality" -otherwise known as wishful thinking. He then had the audacity to accuse Kosygin's budget of perpetuating some of the same "upsetting mistakes." Georgy Popov, Leningrad party boss, went even further and came flat out against the new regime's plan to return the control of heavy industry to Moscow direction from the local authority where Khrushchev...
...Pope Paul's first encyclical has been awaited with eager and hopeful expectancy, not only by Roman Catholics but by millions of non-Catholics who have rejoiced at the manifest liberation and revivification of worldwide Roman Catholicism during the "Johannine era." It would serve no useful purpose to mute the fact that the document, released at long last, stirs non-Catholics with dismay and, doubtlessly, "progressive" Catholics with deep if unuttered disappointment. One searches vainly for a single fresh, forward-looking declaration. Even the Pope's offer "to intervene" in the disputes between contending peoples is hardly novel...