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...tennis team left yesterday on a trip southward for two matches and its first FITL competitions of the year Harvard will open its Eastern League slate this afternoon at Navy, and then travel to New York for a League match tomorrow against Columbia...
Taking Sides? While Dayal's experts fussed noisily about Belgians, they turned a blind eye to a bigger threat to the peace: the gradual southward nibbling of the military patrols of Stanleyville's Antoine Gizenga. Repeatedly in recent weeks visitors warned U.N. headquarters that Gizenga troops had been seen moving toward Luluabourg, capital of Kasai, a strategic junction commanding the only direct route between Kasavubu's Leopoldville and Tshombe's Katanga. "We have no such reports," sniffed a U.N. official...
Even as Nasser hobnobs with Africa's new political leaders at Casablanca and sends planes to supply Congolese revolutionaries, he is also driving to extend his influence southward through religion. Islam, with an estimated 88 million African followers, is the continent's biggest religion, far surpassing Christianity with its 34 million. Nasser is out to convince 75 million Africans who still worship old bush gods that Christianity is tainted with "imperialism," that Islam is the only faith fit for a free Africa. Says one Cairo tract, printed in Swahili and other African languages: "Christian missionaries preach one wife...
...aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines. On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal...
...pointed a disapproving finger at the U.S. - not merely because of competition or the inevitable abrasive rub between adjoining economies. The complaint is that the U.S. controls Canada's economic destiny and holds it back. Long uneasy over the extent of U.S. ownership of Canadian industry and the southward flow of the rewards (60% of all Canadian corporate dividends are paid to foreign investors), Canadians now argue that the U.S. saps Canada's strength, preventing the necessary industrialization for its rising population. At the head of the chorus stands Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, crying...