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...parks with their white charges. Adoula has deposed and jailed the worst regional extremists, notably erratic Antoine Gizenga, who almost made Eastern Province a Communist preserve last year, and zany "King" Albert Kalonji of South Kasai. But Adoula still has not rid himself of the biggest headache of all, stubborn President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province, who has a firm grip on the Congo's copper-rich southeast corner and refuses to share its $50 million annual revenue with the rest of the nation...
...More than a hundred unhappy Spanish politicians boldly gathered 900 miles away in West Germany to talk earnestly of the freedom that Franco fears. Workers gathered in town squares to whisper in awe and pride of the only successful strike in the history of Franco Spain, won by the stubborn Asturias coal miners...
...shelled out a dime for the Herald, "it's better than nothing." Benefits & Beneficiaries. Like most newspaper strikes, this one began with the standard labor-management debate over pay hikes, vacation and sick time, pensions and other fringe benefits. And like most strikes, it quickly degenerated into a stubborn argument over a trifle: the tying of newspapers into bundles before loading them into trucks-long a mailers' prerogative. The papers' management wants to eliminate tying entirely and pack the papers loose into the trucks...
Waring, 54, to pierce what he calls "the paper curtain," a Northern newspaper conspiracy to hide the true South. But thanks to Tom Waring's stubborn silence, even his subscribers were beginning to wonder whether that paper curtain had not been hung by Tom Waring himself...
Behind the customary bread-and-butter issues lay disputes so stubborn that the siege in the two cities seemed unlikely to lift soon. In Detroit, the unions were crying "lockout" at the unstruck but silent News. In Minneapolis, the mailers' union held fast to their right, under challenge by the publishers, to tie newspapers into bundles before loading onto trucks...