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Dark Conspiracies. Until the reforms take hold, Valencia is pleading with labor unions to "give the government a chance to repair the damage wrought by Congress and the last Cabinet." He is getting scant sympathy. More than 92,000 unpaid schoolteachers and clerks and 18,000 employees of Colombia's judiciary system were on strike last week, and 45 major unions have called a general strike for Oct. 1. Many Colombians are simply throwing up their hands. Eugenio GÓmez GÓmez, a member of Valencia's own party, flatly turned down the President...
Nonetheless, Lyndon Johnson has already had to abandon his cherished, if unrealistic, goal of keeping the U.S. budget below $100 billion. He did so by a scant $300 million when he originally submitted his budget for the current year, thereby projecting a politically valuable image of fiscal responsibility...
...lights in the bars on Tu Do Street in downtown Saigon gleam through the moist monsoon night until the capital's 11 p.m. curfew. But a scant ten miles away on Saigon's rural edges, the huts grow dark with the dusk. Lights are as likely to attract a Viet Cong bullet as a mosquito. Their backs to the glow from the city, South Vietnamese troops and their U.S. advisers settle back for a long night of watching-and, above all, listening. For the perimeter surrounding the 400 square miles of Gia Dinh province, which includes Saigon...
...Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish Boss Leander Perez urged whites to offset Negro voting gains by "rushing to the registrar's office." His plea had scant effect. In New Orleans, where there are 122,000 unregistered whites, the local registrar one day last week enrolled 386 Negroes−and 14 whites...
Departing a scant 21 hours earlier was Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who might have been expected to wait around and say hello to the new U.S. ambassador−or at least nod in passing. No one was surprised at his absence, however, for Ky has long been sensitive to the growing U.S. presence in his country, loses no opportunity to vehemently affirm his independence. Lodge's arrival happened at a convenient time for Ky to take off on the second leg of an image-building trip to Formosa and Thailand...