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Outside Hanoi, the peasants have stub bornly resisted the Communists. After rural unrest in 1956, collective farms were all but abandoned, and the peasants were enlisted in "manpower exchange brigades," which means only that they occasionally give one another a hand, as they always have. Since the population is booming by 3.5% a year, North Viet Nam is having difficulty just feeding its people...
...their properties to Mexican interests within the next 25 years. Such moves help explain why new U.S. investment in Mexico was only $11 million in 1960 v. $14 million in 1959 and a whopping $80 million in 1957. Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos added to the unrest last summer when he publicly described his regime as "extreme left." Within the next few months three U.S. food-processing firms put on ice their plans to establish Mexican plants...
Africa. "The Congo has been brutally torn by civil strife, political unrest and public disorder." The worsening position of the West was soon spelled out in a State Department statement suggesting a drastic policy retreat (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Crown Prince Asfa Wassan would doubtless dip his nose an inch or two lower in the dirt on his next meeting with father. Haile Selassie made it scornfully clear that he considered Asfa Wassan only a dupe of others, "acting under coercion." The seeds of unrest among the educated minority of Ethiopians were still there and would grow. But it would take a stronger man than Asfa Wassan to snatch power from the little Lion of Judah...
...order to uphold their policies, Tambo said, they were forced to deprive the opposition, and particularly The African National Congress of all means of political expression. Their recent actions, such as the Sharpeville massacre, are creating widespread unrest among the Blacks and the very strong possibilities of further bloodshed, he declared...