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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INDONESIA. Strong opposition from anti-Communist leaders has so far prevented Indonesia's Parliament from formally accepting the $100 million loan offered by the U.S.S.R. in 1956. But Indonesia has accepted 4,500 Russian jeeps (purchased with a $6,000,000 credit), and near Djokjakarta 40 East German technicians, backed up by a $13 million East German credit, are rebuilding a war-damaged sugar mill. Neither deal has proved very popular. Style-conscious Indonesians find the rough-finish GAZ jeeps unimpressive, and the sugar-mill project is already two years behind schedule. "What those so-called technicians are doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Challenge in Giving | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Mintoff and his compatriots are unpredictable folk. Just how unpredictable the British learned last week when Mintoff rose in the paneled chamber of Malta's Legislative Assembly and proposed a resolution that "representatives of the Maltese people in Parliament declare that they are no longer bound by agreements and obligations toward the British government..." The resolution, seemingly a declaration of intent to secede from the British Empire, was passed unanimously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALTA: Penny-Wise | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Although the job thus demands high qualifications, Lord Hailes was apparently chosen mostly for political reasons: as Patrick ("Paddy") Buchan-Hepburn he served 25 years as a Conservative Member of Parliament, seven years as Tory Whip. When Harold Macmillan appointed him last May, the London Times took the unusual step of scolding the Prime Minister in its lead editorial. But this week the new Governor General will start his tenure energetically by beginning a five-week tour of the infant nation's islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: Queen's Representative | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...WANT CALLAS IN ROME! was scrawled over the posters. Said others, in tribute to Soprano Callas' famed rival: VIVA TEBALDI! On Via Nazionale, before the Hotel Quirinale-where Callas stayed in her suite-truncheon-swinging police again and again charged shouting demonstrators. On the floor of Parliament, a Deputy introduced a motion that would bar Maria Meneghini Callas from all of Italy's state-subsidized opera houses. Her offense: on opening night at the Rome Opera, Callas had walked out of a performance of Bellini's Norma after the first act, leaving behind her a glittering audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva in Disgrace | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Disregard for law and order by the Nazis, Conant declared, hastened the collapse of the Republic. Hitler's success was due to his "plain gangster tactics." He called the new German Constitution, drawn up by French, British, and American representatives, and ratified by the German Parliament in 1948, a positive step towards establishing a democratic government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Lauds German Advances, Cites Political, Economic Growth | 1/9/1958 | See Source »

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