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Since 1957 UCV's budget has grown from $6 million to $20 million annually. But once this money has been awarded to the University, the Ministry of Education exercises no further direction on its use. The University Council exercises sovereign control over the campus and all that pertains to it. The 19-man Council consists of the Rector, the Vice-Rector, the University Secretary, the 11 Deans of the faculties, three students, one graduate, and a representative of the Minister of Education. All Council positions are elective and are the subject of energetic partisan politics. The elections are dominated...
...North, went ahead with plans to convert Nigeria on Oct. 1 from a British dominion to a republic within the British Commonwealth. Sir Abubakar will remain the real boss. The changeover will merely install a ceremonial President as head of state to replace Queen Elizabeth, who is now sovereign...
...week's end, ambassadors of about 40 nations had rushed to scrawl their names on copies of the treaty in Moscow, London and Washington. Some governments were so inspired that they had their representatives sign in all three capitals. More than 100 of the world's 117 sovereign nations are expected to sign eventually-even though most of them know perfectly well they may never have a nuclear device to test or call their own. Most notable holdouts from signing are France and Red China. West Germany, which had feared that the treaty might somehow signify official recognition...
...countries are merely using the test ban treaty for international politics. Examples: Israel, which is in fact working on an atomic bomb, is trying to show that it is just as peace-loving as Egypt's Nasser, and East Germany is trying to assert its status as a sovereign nation, though unrecognized as such by the West...
Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, the head of Guatemala's junta, called Britain's promise of self-rule "a flagrant violation of the sovereign rights of Guatemala." He broke off diplomatic relations with Great Britain, and an editorial in Guatemala City's La Hora spoke grandly of war: "We haven't fought a war for half a century. The English always have been good soldiers, but that doesn't mean they are any more masculine than we are." Unrattled, the British last week went blithely ahead with self-government plans for British Honduras...