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Violence came last week to the usually stolid city of Brussels (pop. 960,000). Tens of thousands of demonstrators fought with police, some 80 were hurt, 1,000 arrested. It was the worst civil disorder since the Leopoldist riots of 1950, which preceded the abdication of King Leopold. At that...
Opposed in principle to paying any taxes, Poujade & Co. demand: 1) abolition of the Polyvalents, the Finance Ministry's 376-man squad of special investigators, who have the power to descend on any enterprise and check its books; 2) repeal of penalties for tax evasion. Egged on by Poujade...
Long & Short. In the old days the wealthier Chinese in the cities could count on a handful of Western-trained doctors practicing modern medicine; in the far interior many of the poorest Chinese got equally good care, free, from medical missions. In between, tens of millions relied on the thousands...
This basic change is what brings a security system into being. The system is a clumsy, fumbling effort to adjust to an entirely new situation in governmental life, the dependence of the national security on the loyalty and discretion of tens of thousands of men and women, some of whom...
Through Nigeria and the Belgian Congo, north to Egypt, across Pakistan and India to Burma, the tireless ambassador made tens of thousands of friends. Gifts were pressed on him-a leopard skin in India, Olympic laurels in Greece, a chieftain's crown in Nigeria.