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Sometimes, in pressing U.S. allies to join in solutions, he pressed too hard. In 1953 he threatened an "agonizing reappraisal" of U.S. policy for Western Europe if Europe failed to adopt the over-simplified European Defense Community. (Later he retreated gratefully to Anthony Eden's compromise Western European Union...
One day last week, two local Moslem farmers passing through Mokhimpur were seized by villagers and beaten with sticks until, weak and bleeding at the feet of the sadhu, they consented to cry, "All Hail to the Hindu God Ramachandra." Released at last, they staggered away and called the police...
Jennie Bernstein, a bright-eyed Boston housewife, was in a dither as she popped through the neighbor's back door with little Lennie in her arms. She put him down on the living-room rug, and the two women stood back to watch. What they saw made musical history. With...
Passive Resistance. Frustrated and angry. Magloire decided a fortnight ago to take a stronger course. Seizing on a dispute over the date ending his term in office, he resigned as President-and promptly succeeded himself as Chief of Executive Power. He suspended the constitution, jailed Dejoie and 146 others.
Revolution that Failed. Bolivia's inflation is the tragic result of a calculated-risk policy of deficit financing. The ruling Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.), seizing power in 1952, set off a historic, all-embracing economic and political revolution. M.N.R. nationalized the major industry, tin mining, confiscating the properties of...