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...hardly necessary to assure his safety. The demonstrators were under orders of the pro-Russian wing of India's divided Communist Party, which for the present is as dedicated to nonviolence as the pro-Peking wing is committed to violence. The crowds were orderly, but by organizing token attempts to break through police cordons, the Reds hoped to get 100,000 people arrested in five days and jam the jails. The police contented themselves with arresting 11,000 demonstrators, including the top pro-Russian leader, S. A. Dange, and most were sentenced to only a week in prison...
Ever a man to put faith in the people he pays, Tshombe wanted to hire mercenaries from the start. And, secretly, he did so. Fully aware that the Congolese army was wholly untrustworthy and that his nationalist African neighbors were unlikely to send him even token support, the smiling little Premier imported the nucleus of his mercenary command six weeks ago, less than two weeks after he took office...
...Jackson, Miss., 43 Negro first-graders peacefully registered at eight tightly guarded previously all-white schools - a first for Mississippi, the last all-white holdout against even token school integration. It came after hundreds of earlier Southern integration "firsts," and ahead of hundreds more yet to come (first across-the-board integration, first statewide, first high school football team, etc.); for in the Deep South only 1% of the Negro pupils yet sit in class rooms with whites. A long time will elapse between the first first a decade ago and the last first years ahead...
...this just a bluff? U Thant spent two days urging Nikita to make at least a token payment, but emerged emptyhanded. "I did not get the impression that the Soviet Union is prepared to change its policy in this matter," he told a press conference in Moscow. The mild-mannered little Burmese-often criticized for excessive flexibility-could have left it at that. But to everyone's astonishment, the Secretary-General took his case straight to the Russian people...
Boston is also the only major city that has refused to take advantage of President Kennedy's Emergency Food Distribution Program. Under this plan needy persons receive assistance from the Government with only a token payment. With the refusal of local authorities to cooperate with either program "kids get it in the neck twice," Mayer said. But Mayer claimed that both programs could be set up effectively within a few months. "I see no reason," he said, "why Boston school-children couldn't have some kind of lunch program by September...