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Johnson's problems are hardly new, as Rabbi Issar Yehuda Unterman, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, took occasion to remind him in a brief, unofficial visit. King David, said the whitebearded rabbi, had also been assailed by "seemingly insoluble problems of state"-yet had surmounted them with divine guidance...
Leopoldville was named after a Belgian king, Elisabethville after a Belgian queen, and Stanleyville after the American journalist who presumed it was Dr. Livingstone. Such names could only remind the Congolese of their colonial past and so, when independence came, it was just a matter of time before they were changed. The time has arrived. President Joseph Mobutu last week decreed that, as of July 1, Elisabethville will be called Lubumbashi (because it is on the Lubumba River), Stanleyville will revert to its pre-Belgian name Kisangani, and Leopoldville, the capital, will become Kinshasa-a corruption of the Bafununga phrase...
...office, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer considered it his solemn duty to constantly remind West Germans of the evil designs of Moscow. Out of office, he is proving more flexible. At the annual Christian Democratic Party convention in Bonn last week, he announced that "I have not given up hope that some day the Soviet Union will recognize that the division of Germany, and thus also the division of Europe, is not to its advantage. The other day something happened in world history that, I believe, should have been stressed much more by the papers-I mean the mediation of the Soviet...
Doherty tries hard to belittle the Republican surge in Massachusetts. He says of Governor Volpe, "He'll be buried when people go to the store and find out that they have to pay his tax." Of the leaders of the "new" Republicanism, "They remind me of Dwight Eisenhower." Of Attorney General Brooke, "I will do many great things, what they are I know...
...Peking leaders of today remind one of the leaders of the Taiping rebellion of the 1850's who picked up Christianity as a foreign ideology, rebuilt it to suit their needs, and took over half the country. The Taipings came from the back country, not from the foreign trade centers. They began as a secret society with a cult, invoked the radical tradition in the Chinese classics, and sought a utopian collective or communal society, at one time even segregating the sexes. But the Taiping leaders were so dogmatic and doctrinaire that they alienated both the Chinese scholar class...