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Holiday Bazookas. For 70 years, Venezuela has lusted after the five-eighths of Guyana that lie between the border and the Essequibo River, which divides the little country north and south. The existing border is based on an arbitration sponsored by President Cleveland, which, when finally handed down in 1899, was largely favorable to the British. Venezuela disputes the decision with an ardor that has increased as smaller Guyana became an independent nation and after Venezuela itself built highways, a steel mill, an aluminum plant and what will eventually be one of the world's largest hydroelectric projects...
...Welcome. At 31, Bowen could well afford to subsidize a whole chain of shoe-repair shops. He and his wife, Singer Keely Smith, receive about 100 business and social visitors a week at their twelve-room North Hollywood house, which has a big black-and-orange piano in the poolroom, a private studio and a swimming pool out back, and a brass plaque on the front door that says: "Our house is open to sunshine, friends, guests...
...church in The Netherlands is perhaps the most independent and autonomy-minded in the Roman Catholic fold. Time and again, it has challenged Rome's ideas of orthodoxy. Last week the Dutch defied the Vatican again, this time with particular force. Meeting in the North Sea town of Noordwijkerhout, the Dutch Pastoral Council, a 109-member assembly of laymen, priests and bishops chosen two years ago to outline policy for the country's 5,000,000 Catholics, rejected Pope Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae as "not convincing on the basis of the argumentation given." That statement...
...Radcliffe Orchestra has elected its officers for 1969. They are: Jonathan D. Berman '70 of Leverett House and Moscow, Idaho, president; Charles C. Hefling, Jr. '71 of Lowell House and Warren, Ohio, vice-president; Dixon M. Butler '70 of Leverett House and Richmond, Va., treasurer; Marion Severynse '71 of North House and West Nyack, N.Y., secretary; Eric Beller '71 of Lowell House and New York, manager; and R. Scott Birdsall '72 of Strauss Hall and Fullerton, Calif., librarian...
...author tries to excuse, in contrast, the massive violence the U.S. continues to inflict on the people of South-east Asia: because we now "seem to regret it" and "seem ashamed." Therefore we are somehow justified in assuming outrage at the unregretted "violence" of the North Koreans against the Pueblo...