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...Bahutu-Watutsi quarrel reached its peak late in 1963, when Watutsi warriors raided Rwanda in bands called inyenzi (cockroaches). The irate Bahutu responded by chopping off the legs of thousands of Watutsis and floating the remains down the Ruzizi River...
...18th century abode that now serves as Poland's Cabinet building. Though the meeting had ostensibly been called to discuss defense matters, a more pressing issue to the East European Reds was the imminent (March 1) preparatory conference called by the Kremlin to discuss Moscow's ideological quarrel with Peking. This was the same monster rally originally scheduled by Nikita Khrushchev for last December. Kosygin and Brezhnev postponed the showdown's date and changed the tenor of the proposed conference from truculence to "objective" discussion of Russo-Chinese differences...
...ideologically challenging of the factions wants a stronger student government at Harvard and seeks a college-wide constitutional convention on the subject. Their position is somewhat weakened, however, by the fact that upperclassmen voted 906-692 in favor of the referendum and that the freshmen seemed to have no quarrel with the division idea...
Many a U.S. editor may quarrel with such criticism, but it comes from a man who has more than earned the right to make it. As editor of the Rand* Daily Mail in Johannesburg, Laurence Gandar, 49, has persistently assailed his country's race policies with the dedication and energy that he finds lacking in U.S. newspapers...
Signs of Decadence. No one can quarrel with the facts that Dame Rebecca presents, and there is no one who tells a better tale of espionage. The quarrel is with the "meaning" she assigns this espionage. Because Klaus Fuchs is a scientist and intellectually arrogant, she suggests that all scientists are peculiarly prone to treason. Because most of the traitors did not be lieve in God, she suggests that Communism or Nazism is the only alternative to faith in God. She is perfectly correct in charging the West, and Great Britain in particular, with egregious laxity in letting Communist spies...