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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve months to special prisons, including one outside Stockholm that is known as "the country club" because of the high social caliber of its inmates. In Denmark, where the number of arrests of drunken drivers has been increasing sharply, police are introducing breath-testing balloons and trying for tougher laws. The Finns put imprisoned tipplers in special jails and make them work their way out. Much of the hard labor in building Helsinki's new international airport was performed by drying-out drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: None for the Road | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

Black Ostrich Feathers. The constitution is tougher in tone than the one that Obote presented last year. That one led to a revolt in Buganda and forced Obote to order his troops to storm the palace of King Freddie, the Kabaka of Buganda, who is now exiled in London. "One people, one destiny, one country, one Parliament and one government," demands Obote, who feels that tribalism had hopelessly fragmented his country. But Obote has also tried to win the people over. As a conciliatory gesture, he let almost 3,000 criminals and political prisoners out of jail to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Tough Shepherd | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...Tougher than I Am." Washington officials are convinced that Ho Chi Minh wants no negotiations with the U.S. until after the 1968 elections, hoping that with a change in administrations he might achieve victory. Johnson has warned that "my successor will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Thunder from a Distant Hill | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...tougher than I am" in prosecuting the war-but growing segments of the U.S. public seem to be disinclined to believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Thunder from a Distant Hill | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Unfortunately, when federal victory comes it will not make much difference. Victory, in fact, could easily initiate a bloodier and longer guerilla war. The Federal Government has 12,000 troops to control a hostile population of over nine-million--difficult in any situation but tougher when the people are Ibos and the Federal conquerors mostly Hausa...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Nigeria's Agony | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

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