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...decade of fiery anticolonialism, nearly every European colonial power has felt the sting of Black Africa's invective. One unlikely exception is General Francisco Franco's Spain, which still presides over a small African colonial empire of 120,000 sq. mi. and 1,400,000 people. Spain's African provinces-Spanish Sahara, Spanish Guinea, the Canary Islands and three scattered coastal outposts-stand out as a rare casebook of how to win friends and create prosperity on a violently turbulent continent. Now Spain is preparing to grant independence by July 15 to the most prosperous and politically...
Easing the Sting. During the all-night Commons debate, Callaghan, the government spokesman, tried to remove some of the bill's sting by promising that no British citizen expelled from Kenya would be denied admission to Britain-though he would not actually write the promise into the law. Later the Home Office thoroughly muddled the situation by explaining that, even if there are a few "humanitarian" admissions, the quota system will stand. That left both critics and supporters of the law so hopelessly confused that the London Times declared: "It has been a wretched affair." Whatever the precise meaning...
...situation is obvious from Lyndon Johnson's worried, wary handling of it. The North Korean regime at week's end pronounced itself "fully combat ready" and determined to deliver "an exterminatory blow" at the U.S. if attacked. And it has amply proved its volatility and hornet sting. North of the 38th parallel it has an army of 367,000, an air force of 35,000 equipped with 650 planes, and a navy of 10,500. Arrayed against this force is a South Korean army of 600,000 men, plus the 2nd and 7th U.S. Infantry Divisions, totaling another...
...deliver a barb without offending is a matter of chemistry that he himself cannot define precisely. "I think it conies from experience," he says. "I know most of these people personally and I know when something will hurt them. I can get away with nuances and insinuations that will sting them a little." He is, says a friend, "lethally neutral." Every target -tycoon or President, Republican or Democrat, general or sergeant, victor or vanquished-gets equal time...
...Center. They seem deliberately designed to elude description. Some are needly and spiky, reminiscent of a mosquito-or perhaps a reconstructed set of blood vessels. Others are bloated, like an octopus with tentacles waving, a man-eating plant, or an anchor squiggling into a second life as a giant sting ray. Still others are stalklike, stiffly articulated into a stack of tibias, and one hangs off the wall-looking for all the world like a pterodactyl. Or then again, maybe a stuffed moose...