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...many Latin Americans, the House action was interpreted as a vote of no confidence in the Alliance. Staunch supporters of the program felt abandoned, complained that the U.S. had not kept its word. Predictably, Fidel Castro's Havana radio gloated over the "doomed" Alliance. To make matters a little worse, the aid cut came just when, according to Moscoso, the "objectives and principles of the Alliance are beginning to make an impact on the thinking of Latin Americans." Says Moscoso: "I've tried to explain it to them, but I'm afraid that disenchantment with the Alliance...
...opposition in a no-confidence vote. One of the leftists, Finn Gustavsen, explained that the S.P.P. toppled Gerhardsen because "he has no longer any contact with the working class." There was spite involved, too; Gerhardsen recently appointed that old Communist target, ex-U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, a staunch Laborite, to the post of Minister of Industry...
...staunch Tory stronghold, Stratford returned Profumo in 1959 with a massive, 14,129-vote margin over a Labor opponent. Though Maude last week was the odds-on favorite, fellow Tories feared that the presence of a vigorous Liberal candidate and two extremists in the race might seriously cut into Conservative strength. Maude was helped by a gentleman's agreement among all the candidates to avoid dragging Profumo into the campaign. In any event, the great majority of voters seemed unperturbed by disclosures of vice in high places...
...Cambridge, for all the tranquillity of this week's settlement, has been a long and unusually hard one for the civil rights movement in Maryland. The racial eruptions in that town were among the most violent of the past year and the opposition the Negroes faced was incredibly staunch...
...Died. Mohammed Khemisti, 32, Algeria's young Foreign Minister, a staunch backer and longtime friend of Premier ben Bella, who put aside old hatreds to become the prime architect of Algeria's post-revolutionary cooperation with France, winning himself the high respect of Western diplomats; of a head wound received 24 days earlier when an insane Moslem shot him at point-blank range; in Algiers...