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...repercussions of the Cyprus quarrel had grown too dangerous to tolerate for either Turkey or Greece, whose amity is precarious at best, had only been painfully re-created after the killings and mass transfers of their two populations after World War I. The Turks, now threatened on their southern flank by Nasser's annexation of Syria and by Communist infiltration in Iraq, needed friendship with Greece In order to secure their western flank. The Greeks, after winning little sympathy In NATO, had failed to get a strong U.N. resolution on Cyprus last December. This apparently was the turning point...
...with jaundiced disapproval by General Manager Stubbs, a Guy Gannett conservative. The breach between Stubbs and Roger Williams widened into an open feud. "Stubbs didn't care a hoot about improving the paper,'' said Jean Gannett Williams, who did. Last fall, worn out by refereeing the quarrel, Jean collapsed, was hospitalized with pneumonia. A long convalescence gave her ample time to think...
Laos. Under new Premier Phoui Sananikone this small, primitive nation has made a significant leap forward. Badgered by a border quarrel with Communist North Viet Nam and by a sizable native band of Reds, Phoui is nevertheless courageous enough to stand up and be counted as an ally of the West. But the Laotian economy is staggering, and four years of U.S. aid served mostly to line politicians' pockets until Phoui took over. For the first time Laos deserves, as well as needs, substantial U.S. help...
...reported that the trouble was mainly economic and social-the tribesmen felt they were being treated like poor relations by the "city slickers" in the government. But privately, they warned that the problem was serious. Tribal leaders were "in touch" with the Algerian rebels, and spoiling for trouble. Their quarrel, insisted the tribesmen, was only with the politicians, not with King Mohammed...
Miracle and Reward. In the meantime, Preedy flourishes when the spirit moves him, goes into decline when his mystical source fails him. Powerful newspaper people quarrel about him, try to decide whether to back him, attack him, or ignore him. The skeptical, hopelessly crippled daughter of an American millionaire is brought to him; the girl rises to her feet and rewards Preedy handsomely. But when Preedy persuades another woman to ignore doctors and her child dies, his own committee members begin to turn against...