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Fueled by Communist North Viet Nam with supplies and men smuggled through Laos over the clandestine Ho Chi Minh Trail, this wasting war has been going on for seven years. Its object is the destruction of South Viet Nam's stubby, stubborn President Ngo Dinh Diem, 60, who runs the war, the government, and everything else in South Viet Nam from a massive desk in his yellow stucco Freedom Palace in Saigon. President Diem had fought the Communists in his country long before World War II. At war's end, he was arrested by them; his brother was shot...
...Newburgh; since 1950 the number of Negro residents has risen 151%, even though the city's overall population has dropped 3%. Poor, ill-trained and badly educated, Newburgh's ex-migrants find it hard to get year-round jobs in a town with little industry. The stubborn discrimination of the North has forced them to congregate in four waterfront districts that police bluntly call "the trouble wards." The area is now a classic slum, going from bad to worse; during the past three years, the assessed value of property on Newburgh's downtown streets has dropped...
House Democratic leaders asked Freeman to compromise, but stubborn Orville Freeman declined. That left Congress little choice but to take him apart -and last week both the Senate and the House did just that. In the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Allen Ellender brought up every compromise he could think of, only to have Freeman's scheme scuttled 9-8 by a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. In the House committee, the plan went down to defeat before a similar coalition, although, as a sop. Freeman was given the power to set up marketing-control plans for honey, lamb...
...Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe, who has been held as hostage in a villa near Leopoldville. Grumbling, the Katangans finally agreed to rejoin...
...Father Lenard's defiant colloquy with the judge was vivid testimony to the fact that the Christian faith is a stubborn adversary, even for Communism's ruthless men. Upon news of the arrests, Budapest's Archbishop Joseph Grosz, acting head of the Hungarian clergy, fired off a letter to the government. "If the arrested priests are guilty," he said, "then I, too, must be guilty. Arrest me and put me in prison with my friends." Prudently, the government chose to ignore the dare...