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...trusted to remain in the workers' paradise. The idea is to move them to a safe distance from the sealed frontier in Berlin or other areas bordering the West. Some were actually caught in the act of fleeing; others are merely suspected of planning to flee, or "spreading unrest." For all, the penalty is swift deportation to the new camps in the interior, where "work rehabilitation" means sweating in a quarry or a mine from...
Behind their new wall, the Communists were busy stamping out the unrest that had swept the nation ever since the Berlin crackdown. Dozens of East Germans went on trial for "insulting the state." Many panic-stricken East Germans who bought up groceries and clothing in fear of war were called on the carpet for hoarding. There was still a trickle of refugees sneaking out to the West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate...
...approval of President Kennedy's cold war television speech last fortnight, the U.S. was arming surely for any trouble ahead. As the Congress went swiftly to work on emergency measures, the nation's confidence grew, too, with the realization that the real Berlin problem was the civic unrest and economic weakness of Communist East Germany-and that the real discomfiture was the Russians', Despite increasing surveillance by Dictator Walter Ulbricht's Volkspolizei, refugees from East Germany crossed into West Berlin last week at the rate of 1,000 a day; Ulbricht himself flew off to Moscow...
...peasants' identity cards to disrupt local administration; the Communists even managed to sabotage the national census by substituting falsified lists in some areas. The Viet Cong, which is what the Communist Vietnamese are called, are everywhere: tossing grenades into isolated villages in the rice fields in the south, sowing unrest among the border tribesmen in the thickly wooded Annamese highlands to the north. By day Saigon, a city of 2,000,000, is safe enough. But no one willingly sets his foot outside town after dark...
...world's most durable dictator turned 72 last week. It was surely the unhappiest birthday for AntÓnio de Oliveira Salazar in the 29 years of his one-man rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...