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Whenever it starts feeling lonely in Southeast Asia, the U.S. can always take heart in at least one staunch, cheerleading, on-the-field friend. That friend is Thailand, and visiting the U.S. last week was one of the Thais' brainiest and most articulate spokesmen, Thanat Khoman, 51, onetime Ambassador to the U.S. and to the United Nations, now his country's able Foreign Minister...
...F.D.R., who as Governor of New York had admired her work as his industrial commissioner, remained a staunch backer and more than once refused her offer to resign. Much of his New Deal legislation, including the monumental social security law, could be traced directly to her influence...
...country, one of the smallest and poorest of Africa's new nations, has about 4,500,000 inhabitants, whose yearly per capita income is only $50. Once part of French West Africa, Upper Volta gained its independence in 1960 and elected Yameogo, then 38, its first President. A staunch U.S. ally in the presence of such powerful anti-U.S. neighbors as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Yameogo did not come seeking more U.S. aid (Upper Volta gets about $1,000,000 a year), simply wanted to reassure Johnson that Upper Volta and the other moderate, new African nations...
Indeed it must. As a staunch little island of welfare-statism since the late 1920s, Uruguay now has so many built-in giveaways (among them: full-pay retirement as early as age 55) that the Nebraska-size wool-and-beef-producing country is on the brink of bankruptcy. The Council, which operates by majority vote, spends most of its time bickering. When it does make a decision, the effect is severely limited by autonomous state agencies that exert an enormous influence on the nation's economy. The state-owned power company can raise gas and electricity prices whenever...
...mood of the nation has mellowed. Partly it is because the monarchy has long since overcome the shock of the duke's abdication, and partly because of a different moral atmosphere. In the old days, the most adamant member of the royal family was Queen Mary, that staunch Victorian who could never swallow the idea of her son's marrying a divorcee. "My mother's mind was set," wrote the duke of their infrequent later meetings. "No reconciliation . . . she never forgave...