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...Nonalign? The question of unity was also on the agenda in New Delhi, where the leaders of the world's three original "nonaligned" nations met last week. Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Indira Gandhi did not quite know why they were getting together. Nostalgically recalling the good old days, Nasser remarked that the world was no longer so sharply split between East and West. "Our world is still governed by strife," he added, as if to suggest that this, at least, was reason to gather...
Only a decade ago at Bandung, 29 nonaligned leaders gathered for ten days to prescribe a cure for the cold war's ills. Since then, many of the non-aligned world's leaders have fallen: India's Nehru is dead; Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Indonesia's Sukarno have dropped from supreme power. Indeed, nonalignment itself badly needs redefinition: the former nonaligneds have hardly anyone left to nonalign with...
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