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...Birrenbach, Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol prodded Bonn for action on 1) extending the statute of limitation to permit the arrest and trial of Nazi murderers still at large, 2) forcing the return home of German scientists working on Egypt's rocket program, and 3) resuming the shipment of arms to Israel suspended last month because of Nasser's protests...
...shipment of 21 tons of electrical equipment from rural electrical cooperatives in Kentucky is helping an Ecuadorian cooperative double its output; Wisconsin plans to send a similar shipment to Nicaragua. Idaho has sent sewing machines to an Ecuadorian orphanage where the girls learn to become seamstresses. The Junior Chamber of Commerce in Mobile, Ala., has sent to Guatemala a bookmobile and funds to build a rural school, while Santa Barbara, Calif., has provided $100,000 worth of medical equipment and Pharmaceuticals for Bogot...
...House had voted the cutoff after U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser served notice that he intends to continue shipment of arms to Congolese rebels and averred that if the U.S. did not like his brand of foreign policy it could "go jump in the lake." For his part, Johnson told newsmen last week that if the U.S. is to protect its "vital interests, in this part of the world, where tensions are very high, then the President must have freedom of action to act in the best interest of all the people of this land...
...swallowed it. The longshoremen, ignoring Gleason's pleas that they ratify what he called "the best contract in I.L.A. history," voted their reflexes, turned down the contract, then walked off the docks from Maine to Texas. Since other unions refused to cross I.L.A. picket lines, goods in shipment piled up on docks across the U.S., and 235 cargo and passenger ships stood idle. Cost to the economy: about $67 million...
...King sees four plateaus within a skyward spiral of interracial progress. Down at the bottom is slavery, initiated in 1619 with the first shipment of African captives to the New World. Next comes segregation, a phase begun with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863--"slavery obscured by the niceties of complexity." In the third stage, which includes the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of '64, segregation becomes illegal. That's where we are now. Legislation can't change the heart, but it can "restrain the heartless. It can't make a man love...