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...President's ceaseless attention to foreign policy's disparate parts, Kennedy summoned to his room John Calvin Hill, U.S. consul general in Santo Domingo. Hill, flown to Puerto Rico for the occasion, spent an hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican Republic's continuing unrest, was ordered back to Santo Domingo on the double at the briefing's end. The Kennedys slept the night in the La Fortaleza palace, and next morning the President rose early for breakfast with Munoz Marin. He got a realistic political briefing from an experienced Caribbean statesman about leftist, anti...
Army Farms. The supple new line may have been hurried along by unrest in the Red army. The peasant rank and file was naturally bitter at the suffering of its families in the communes. Red army officers resent the use of their men as a labor force. Because of army protests in 1959, Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai was replaced by more pliable Marshal Lin Piao, who instituted a new and supposedly chastening system of sending officers into the ranks for one month each year to wear "ordinary soldiers' uniforms and to eat, live, drill, labor and play together...
...time working his top-level contacts in big business for inside tips. As a matter of routine, every one of S. & P.'s employees is expected to report any business rumor he hears. One employee's wife, a dietitian at a major aluminum fabricating plant, reported worker unrest over the quality of food served in the company cafeteria. By the time the stomach rumblings finally erupted into a 47-day strike, S. & P. subscribers were well warned...
Ghana's controlled press, meantime, stepped up its anti-British campaign. One paper accused Britain of fomenting labor unrest, another charged it had plotted the death of Dag Hammarskjold. The Accra Evening News, angry at the proposed November visit of Queen Elizabeth (''the head of a bloated kingdom"), called on the government to cancel the invitation. But Nkrumah is still unwilling to give up his position in the Commonwealth. In London. Ghana's Acting High Commissioner Kwesi Armah called a press conference to erase any thoughts that the Queen would be unwelcome. Said he: "A hilarious...
...Reuther. Three weeks ago, in a move to pressure G.M. for improved working conditions, Reuther gave the U.A.W.'s G.M. plant locals the go-ahead to strike over local issues in the belief that he could call his men back whenever he wanted. But Reuther underestimated the unrest in the locals. Last week in Detroit the U.A.W. Council which represents all the locals in G.M. plants, agreed to accept the nationwide contract that Reuther had negotiated, then turned around and voted for a full-scale strike until all local disputes were settled. Next day, under intense pressure from Reuther...