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Before the Chinese attack on Moscow last month, Dej had sent a delegation headed by Premier Ion Maurer to Peking to plead for an end to the polemics. Dej was afraid that any worsening of the split would force Khrushchev to tighten his grip on the Eastern European satellites, and Rumania was doing well without any more help from Nikita. Rumania boasts the highest industrial growth rate in Europe, a phenomenal 15%, and has achieved that growth by defying Moscow. The original role Khrushchev had charted for Rumania under its Comecon plan-the Red version of the Common Market...
...Washington that Defendants Hoffman and McLaughlin (who are still living together) were deprived of the 14th Amendment's guarantees of due process and equal protection of the laws. Florida does not ban cohabitation by unmarried persons of the same race, for example, and the defendants were unable to plead common-law marriage because Florida forbids intermarriage under another law, which the N.A.A.C.P. also wants struck down. Moreover, Florida's definition of Negro ("every person having one-eighth or more of African or Negro b'ood") is so vague that police merely identified McLaughlin as a Negro...
...cops be withdrawn, the only effective force on Zanzibar would be 300 bullyboys armed with automatic rifles who take orders from Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, and it is "Babu" who wants Moderate Karume's job. Alarmed, Karume flew to Dar es Salaam to plead with Nyerere, who listened sympathetically and offered a counter proposal: let Zanzibar immediately merge with Tanganyika...
...badly that image has been shattered was illustrated by the very birthday greeters who came-or failed to come -to Moscow. Khrushchev apparently wanted to prepare a full-dress Communist summit meeting to condemn China. Instead of simply calling such a meeting and dictating the resolutions, Khrushchev had to plead and argue with foreign parties, including those from his own satellites. The Italians, among others, did not even send a delegation to Moscow. The rest plainly urged restraint, not because they like Mao any better than Khrushchev does, but because they are afraid of the consequences of widening the split...
Politics & Prices. Although it has pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to one of the lesser price-fixing charges handed down in the same investigation, U.S. Steel denied the latest accusations, planned to plead not guilty at this week's arraignment. Bethlehem also issued a denial, countercharged the trustbusters with disinterring "ancient history" and "harassing" the steelmen. Many executives viewed the indictment as the latest phase in what they deem to be a continuing vendetta against steel led by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. But they absolved Lyndon Johnson of any blame, on the grounds that the charges did not originate...