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Political parties: 1. Voters: 60%. Unrest led jolly, ultra-conservative President Hubert Maga, 45, to jail opposition leaders last year. Western-style politics barely understood outside two main cities...
General Ne Win decided to dynamite the Student Union after two days of rioting in Rangoon. The riots were triggered by a government order confining students to their dormitories every night after 8 o'clock. But student unrest has been growing all month as Ne Win urgently pushed his idea of a single party to encompass the entire nation. Of the three major political parties in Burma, only the pro-Peking Communist National United Front enthusiastically responded,*obviously because it hopes to dominate the single party. The country's two democratic-socialist parties oppose the plan...
...aide and confidant to Leonel Brizola, the state's rabble-rousing, far-left governor. Brochado da Rocha himself was a key man in the expropriation last February of Rio Grande's $7,000,000 U.S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary. Still, sensing the public unrest, the conservatives were willing to take Brochado da Rocha and did not object even when he called for a plebiscite to return Brazil to a strong presidential system...
Kennedy's silence-is-the-best-policy stand is probably wise. For there is little question that much of the current economic unrest was caused by Administration words that spoke louder than deeds-beginning with Kennedy's abusive language toward the steel industry. Thus the Wall Street Journal last week reported that even furniture sales have slumped in recent weeks as a result of widespread economic uncertainty. Said Martin Lammert III, president of St. Louis' Lammert Furniture Co.: Business was great. Then Kennedy started feuding with business, the stock market slumped, and our sales have been...
...defeated the Republicans in Spain's bloody Civil War and built his stern, stable military regime in the proud, suffering land. Today, he seems as confident as ever that the regime can go on forever. But all the signs dispute him. There is in Spain a ferment and unrest that signals change ahead...