Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Phoumi had agreed to be Finance Minister and Red Prince Souphanouvong to take the Economy and Planning port folio, but Phoumi flatly vetoed Souvan-na's candidate for Foreign Minister, a talkative, leftist bookseller named Quinini Pholsena. At week's end, as the three princes and the general separated, the only solid-seeming agreement was to resume meetings this week...
...week's end, Betancourt was under new attack as 400 marines and 50 national guardsmen revolted in the port town of Carupano, 250 miles east of Caracas. The pro-Betancourt forces attacked and held the airport, swept into town. Outnumbered and outgunned, the rebel leader and most of his troops surrendered...
...trains stop at the city of Mahagonny, on the Gulf coast of the U.S., and no steamers list it as a port of call. But to informed, between-wars German theatergoers, the imaginary town was a metropolis of almost legendary fame-a strange amalgam of jazz-age New Orleans and beer-cellar Berlin...
...Uganda's Apollo Milton Obote, 37, achieved his easy triumph with the sup port of the country's most powerful tribal monarch, Kabaka ("Freddie") Mutesa II of Buganda. Election day brought a heavy turnout; shy Pygmies emerged from Western Uganda's forests to vote, and polling officials often found it difficult to prevent them from taking their bows and arrows into the curtained booths. Winner Obote is a fervent anti-Communist whose major task in corning months will be in London, where constitutional talks are scheduled this summer. The constitution that Obote needs must give Uganda...
Welensky is assured of winning this week's election, but it will be a meaning less victory. The contest is being fought under existing federal election rules, in which only a small number of blacks have the vote; whites, though increasingly crit ical of Royboy. will overwhelmingly sup port him. In the long run. Welensky can not stop the dissolution of the Federation...