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Jacobs called for an immediate discussion of the possibility of transferring Marshal and Permanent Class Committee elections to the supervision of another body. He emphasized his belief that the Council was well equipped to handle the elections, but called for a full examination of the issue...
...House. Sending his right-hand man, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, to mend badly neglected and sagging fences in the northern Syrian province, Nasser took personal charge of his lagging Egyptian land-reclamation program and recently handed title to 350 new smallholders at Edku in the Nile delta. At Port Said last month, he proclaimed that his first $870 million, five-year industrialization plan was creating 800,000 new jobs, and that his $1.3 billion rural-development program would "build a house for every farmer, give every farmer a cow, and . . . change our society." The U.S. has not yet matched...
...months in power, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan had done much to retrieve Pakistan from the misrule of her squabbling, corrupt politicians. But some of his supporters, including Foreign Minister Manzur Qadir, who is an able constitutional lawyer, were disturbed that all this progress should take place while Pakistan was still under martial law. Since Soldier-President Ayub is at the peak of his popularity, urged Qadir, why not take a leaf from De Gaulle and get himself formally recognized as head of state? Already elections were being held to choose 80,000 local members of Ayub's "basic...
...Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, after he seized full power in Thailand late in 1958, announced bluntly: "They must go, and they must go soon." But who would take the Vietnamese refugees? Laos did not want them. Neither did South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, who feared loss of face if the refugees-mostly northerners, and Communist-indoctrinated-should reject an invitation from him. At this point, North Viet Nam's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh offered to take in the refugees. And after the usual hard bargaining, an agreement was reached between the Communists and Thailand...
...been argued that the exam is an irreplaceable part of the lecture-and-syllabus system. Life itself, so the argument runs, is an endless succession of crises in which the educated man is called upon to marshal and organize his knowledge on short notice. Certainly in a course aimed toward the assimiliation of large quantities of factual or semi-factual data, the exam is a successful approximation of such a crisis...