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...policy of granting independence upon request, France hoped to keep the friendship of the 13 new states that until this year comprised the French empire in western Africa. As its staunchest ally in the area, France counted on Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 55, the sly old pro who sat in five French Cabinets and is now Premier of the Ivory Coast. Last week Houphouet-Boigny assembled five Presidents, three Premiers and three ministers plenipotentiary* for a conference in the Ivory Coast's boomtown capital of Abidjan, and emerged just 48 hours later to announce "unanimous agreement" on foreign policy questions...
...this most peripetitic of all candidates, a new opportunity has arisen. Fate--Mr. Nixon's staunchest ally--has delivered into the hands of the Republican Party four hours of Monday afternoon television time. Instead of their favorite soap operas, American housewives will be confronted with the nation's political Pepper Young, sans family...
...Meyer's staunchest opponents, however, have to double about his honesty; the doubt in the minds of Vermont voter stems from the conflicting images of a sincere dissenter and of dangerous radical. The two strains are present even in the comments of Stafford's campaign manger, Earie Bishop, a veteran who has served two terms in the service, and is now a member of the National Guard and wears his uniform when he spends Sundays at home. "Meyer is dangerously naive," Bishop observed, "but I have no reason to doubt his sincerity--and certainly he makes sense in what...
...Chinese Communists keep Peking's tiny complement of foreign correspondents (about 25) penned up like zoo animals, spoon-feed them a diet of propaganda seldom adulterated by truth. But now and then the tamest specimens, i.e., those with the staunchest Communist records, are led forth for a blinkered stroll around the compound. Last week 19 such journalists returned to Peking after a three-week tour of ravaged Tibet...
...life, the work has a good deal of facile melody, and Antonietta Stella, Renato Capecchi and Cesare Valletti give it a rousing performance. But the libretto, which has to do with a girl driven mad when wrongly accused of being a wanton, is enough to shake anybody but the staunchest Donizetti...