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...French Republic, France is not yet on the verge of a coup d'état. The one individual who might bring off a coup-General Charles de Gaulle-cannot hope to do so without a far graver crisis and far more parliamentary support than he now commands. The unrest in the French army, which has aroused nervous talk abroad of a military coup, is still largely confined to a few embittered career officers, mostly young colonels exasperated by years of frustration in Indo-China, Morocco, Suez and now Algeria. As for the ordinary Frenchman, he is too busy enjoying...
...There is unrest in the rank and file of the party. The extremist newspaper Transvaler has recently printed letters from troubled readers warning that "we dare not keep the African in our country and deny him full civil rights . . . We are going to pay with the blood of our children for the luxury we enjoy today. That is the ugly truth." There is a strong but probably wishful feeling in United Party circles that the nation is turning away from the Nationalists. For the Africans there is little choice. The United Party also wants the African kept in his place...
...demanding an end to the police state. Against the demonstrators, the cops used the strongman's best brand of brutal force. But despite hundreds of arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports filtered from Miratlores Palace that the officers who helped dump Fernández were pressing the dictator to slack off the oppression. Clearly, Pérez Jiménez' troubles were far from over...
...guns of Communist China fire only fitfully these days across the Formosa Strait. Southeast Asia's Communist guerrillas are in retreat. Red China, racked by agrarian unrest, by industrial and political upheaval, by flood and famine, has turned its attention inward. Throughout the Asian rimland there are signs-some faint, some clearly visible-that peace and order have begun to creep into the ascendant. Politically, only one nation-Indonesia -still thrashes in chaos. Economically, inflation has hurt eastern Asia less than some others; several nations, led by Japan, are surging toward prosperity...
...seats in the Cabinet, and in return Souphanouvong agreed to integrate 1,500 of his 6,000-odd Communist troops into the royal army. The rest of the Pathet Lao army would be placed in "reserve status," and permitted to return to their native villages, there to create what unrest they could...