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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ATTIC is a kind of bastard offspring of Alfie and The Graduate, a comedy with a cheap sort of charm about a campus ladykiller (Chris Jones) who gets his comeuppance from his steady girl (Yvette Mimieux...
...journalist, says Clark, he worked for newspapers in St. Joseph, Mo., St. Louis and Washington, D.C., before joining TIME'S Chicago bureau in 1962. Since then, his assignments have taken him to Britain, Scandinavia, Africa, Canada and all over the U.S. But his only exposure to the sort of unpleasantness he has found in Viet Nam came in Oxford, Miss. "That was in the fall of 1962, when I cringed behind Doric columns at 'Ole Miss' to avoid Confederate fusillades unleashed to protest the enrollment of James Meredith...
...Anguillians expelled the 15-man St. Kitts-directed police force and demanded direct links with Britain. While London dithered, an Anguillian referendum, by a vote of 1,813 to 5, voted for independence. In January 1968, the British dispatched an official, Anthony Lee, to sort things out, but he did not succeed. A year later, the Anguillians ceremoniously ushered Lee off the island. Last February a second referendum approved a new constitution by a vote of 1,739 to 4, set up an independent republic, and designated 43-year-old Ronald Webster as Acting President...
...replaced by about 100 engineer troops. In Anguilla, some 300 islanders staged a tumultuous demonstration at occupation headquarters, mauling British Commissioner Lee and all but taking over the offices. One woman reported that Lee bit her arm when she reached into his car. For Britain it was precisely the sort of dubious victory that accords with the reality of its reduced state in the world. It could also signal a new role for the British-as the world's Keystone cops...
...evolve a system that was too idealistic or too unrealistic," Ayub said of the arrangement, which was based on the fact that four-fifths of Pakistan's 125 million people are illiterate. Still, Ayub was now prepared to clear the way for a parliamentary system of the sort that governed Pakistan before his takeover in 1958. He urged his guests to put off their demands for other reforms until a new Parliament could be elected...