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...election time in two important areas of Africa. In steaming Uganda, a black former herdboy was picked to steer the divided little land toward independence Oct. 9. In the sprawling Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, a white, burly former locomotive engineer won another chance to pull his disintegrating country together. The shoo-in victors...
...look up, and you feel shouting. And then you look You kick your feet. You steer chute, and head toward the target, you don't really care about hitting spot. Not on your first jump, anyway...
After 307 years of colonial rule, Jamaica, biggest and richest of the British West Indies, goes its independent way Aug. 6. Last week the island's voters chose the government that will steer them through the first days of independence...
...When first broached, the idea of a secular Jewish school caused headshaking among Jewry's three basic factions. "For the Orthodox, we weren't Jewish enough," recalls Dean Berger. "For the Reformed, we were too Jewish. Just to get the support of the Conservatives, we had to steer a course between Scyllaberg and Charybditsky...
...those same "ambitious agitators" with whom he swore he would never negotiate; leftists say that he negotiated too slowly and too deviously, hold him responsible for much of the S.A.O. violence in France and Algeria. But whatever the detours, only Charles de Gaulle had the stature to steer France toward a settlement without civil war. Drawing on his surge of popularity after a settlement, De Gaulle will put the terms of the Evian accord to the nation in a national referendum, probably in the spring, then will call for parliamentary elections to strengthen his hand in the National Assembly...