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...German reunification. There was none, except in the form of "some very unchaste offers" from Khrushchev. Even though European unity was set back by the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle, and specifically by De Gaulle's veto of British Common Market membership on Jan. 14, 1963, Adenauer a scant week later concluded a perpetual Treaty of Friendship with France, to much dismay in the West...
...50th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's appearance to three shepherd's children. Tens of thousands of pilgrims are expected in Fatima, but getting satisfactory accommodations is going to be almost as miraculous as the event the pilgrims have come to celebrate: the town has a scant 5,000 beds for guests-mostly in places that have neither running water nor indoor toilets...
...Government, for example, was supposed to have decided more than a year ago to spread the population-control message. In practice, it has spent a scant $9,000,000 in the past twelve months on family-planning leaflets and small-scale birth-control advice to countries that asked for it. Last week AID Administrator William S. Gaud told Congress that with its hoped-for $20 million budget in the next fiscal year, AID will at last begin to finance the manufacture and distribution of oral contraceptives in countries that have voluntary family-planning programs. Putting money where its mouth...
...nearly equal to the 11,124 who defected in all of 1965. The running start puts Saigon's Chieu Hoi goal of 45,000 defectors in 1967 well within reach, even though no Viet Cong units as a group have so far crossed over-and only a scant 200 of Hanoi's North Vietnamese regulars have come...
...September as acute lymphatic leukemia. Besides the usual abnormalities of white cells and bone marrow, he had a tendency to form tumor masses in the neck and armpits. He was given standard treatment with drugs that produced remission. But then came relapse. Dr. Hill finally decided to use his scant supply of L-asparaginase. In daily injections beginning Feb. 13, Frank Hayes received 213,000 units. On March 16, he developed hives and a lump in his throat, indicating an allergic reaction and suggesting to Dr. Hill that it may be best to give the drug in large doses over...