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...South Africans react? "The blacks are intrigued," reports TIME's Peter Hawthorne, "delighted with the pomp afforded Banda and perhaps secretly amused that one of them could have whites clicking their heels. The whites are wryly interested, privately a bit cynical, but when confronted with the whisk-waving Banda, gleefully cavorting like a black leprechaun, they tend to be shy, a little confounded, but ultimately pleased to have shaken his hand. As one government official observed at a state banquet in Banda's honor, 'Suddenly South Africa isn't the same any more.' " For South...
Flexed Muscles. The Sunday night announcement was no problem for U.S. dailies-except that it took an extra day for their editorial writers to react. When they did, the consensus was overwhelmingly favorable. The Philadelphia Inquirer praised "an act of courage and statesmanship unparalleled by any U.S. chief executive for at least a third of a century," and the Baltimore Sun approved "an activist flexing of government muscles not seen since the early Roosevelt experiments." "No longer," noted the Miami Herald, "is the American economy all sail and no rudder." Cartoonists portrayed Nixon variously as a parody of Roosevelt, ministering...
...people will react violently to this," a member of the Bengali liberation underground whispered to TIME Correspondent David Greenway in Dacca last week. The warning proved all too true. Sheik Mujibur ("Mujib") Rahman, 51, fiery leader of East Pakistan and the man who may hold the key to ending the bloody five-month-old civil war, had just gone on trial for his life before a secret military court in West Pakistan, more than 1,500 miles away. Late that same afternoon, a bomb exploded in the lobby of Dacca's Intercontinental Hotel...
...Soviet Union continued to react to the thaw between the U.S. and China in a muted fashion. Its press printed few articles; they criticized Peking for its "collusion with imperialism," and were less harsh to the U.S. Premier Aleksei Kosygin pointedly reminded Idaho...
...Corporation-Francis H. Burr '35, the man who headed the search for Pusey's successor, Hugh Calkins '45, and John M. Blum '43-are close friends of his. At this point, the Corporation and Overseers are beaming with pride over their new President; only time will tell how they react to his administrative inclinations...