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Oddly enough, these were the first U.N. casualties since the 1949 truce. But the lot of the U.N.'s 60 unarmed policemen on the world's hottest frontier has never been a happy one. Lonely, unloved, powerless, they keep round-the-clock watch in border dugouts, alert for mischief and ready to radio their chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, in case of trouble. Their cars have been burned and stoned. They have come under fire that they swear was not accidental. They have been ignored. When the Israelis staged their big El Auja...
...able to maintain enough political power in the Congress to protect its interests [through seniority on powerful House and Senate committees, etc.]. The third party led by J. Strom Thurmond-also of South Carolina-in 1948 should have taught us a lesson . . . Such movements could leave the section politically powerless, with all that this implies...
Racking Task. Piled atop his economic problems, President Kubitschek has a full share of political worries. Within the armed forces, the "preventive revolution" left resentments strong enough to be troublesome if the government stumbles. Vice President Goulart, powerless under the constitution to do anything more than preside over the Senate, is likely to go his own political way, looking ahead to the 1960 election. Kubitschek is still under suspicion, in Brazil and abroad, of having made some kind of election deal with the Reds; anything he does or says that relates to Communism will be examined for signs that...
...blitz purge of the building-workers' locals was big news in West Germany last week, reflecting a new awareness of an infiltration that most West Germans had long thought themselves immune to. Though the Communists are almost powerless at the polls (they lost their 14 remaining Bundestag seats in the last national elections), they have deeply infiltrated West German industry...
...ugly word, and in the Chamber, Deputies were sobered. Faure made a last, stern appeal: stop bickering, and make up your mind on what France should do in North Africa. Lest France be left alone and friendless in the world, he pleaded, "we must have a clear policy-not powerless sulking...