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...trained economist had a month-long look at Red China (TIME cover, Sept. 13) and emerged last week with some pertinent conclusions. The man was Raymond Scheyven, 52, Belgium's former Economic Affairs Minister and currently a member of the Belgian Parliament. Scheyven visited Canton, Peking and Shanghai, and a number of industrial centers in northeastern and central China. He was told that cloth rationing would continue for at least five years. Scheyven added that optimists gave China 20 years to catch up with the industrial nations of the West, and pessimists 40 to 50 years. Said Scheyven...
...brothers already have been brushed by some of the winds of change that other Indians fear: Uganda's Parliament enacted a higher sugar tax largely aimed at the Madhvanis. But they have hedged against too much discrimination by heavily supporting charities and political parties in the three nations, and by presenting the government of Uganda with a $500,000 office building in Kampala. They have hired some black African executives. Jayant, a citizen of Uganda and a former member of its colonial legislature, continues to cultivate his old political friendships...
Aiming to "humanize Communism," Kadar has sacked Stalinist political hacks, appointed non-Communists to Cabinet posts, and allowed nonparty members to serve in the Parliament. He has granted amnesty to thousands of political prisoners and encouraged refugees who fled in 1956 to return with free pardons; today the government claims that more than one-third of 1956's 200,000 refugees have come back home. Worker membership in the Communist Party is not a sure guarantee of success. "We are not going to give red bloods the same privilege once enjoyed by bluebloods," says Kadar...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A dark chapter in a Member of Parliament's past prevents him from receiving a Cabinet appointment. Jack Hawkins, Pamela Brown. Repeat...
...position in the conflict with China and to state formally that Chinese warmongering is far more harmful to world Communism than Yugoslavia's "revisionism." But Tito and his guest seemed to shy away from much closer relations. Tito ignored Khrushchev's apparent desire to address the Yugoslav parliament, and Russia cold-shouldered Yugoslavia's request for massive economic aid, granted Belgrade only observer status in Comecon, the satellites' more or less common market. "Differences still exist between us on party matters," said one Yugoslav official. "If we press for closer contacts, an open quarrel might develop...