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...year ago, when they left Rio de Janeiro for their "duty stations" in a long, arid river basin 500 miles away, the volunteers were advised to look up the local officials of the Commissao do Vale do Sao Francisco (CVSF). The CVSF, a federal agency charged with developing the river basin, was supposed to supply Brazilian technician counterparts to the volunteers in each station...
...dead three years-this is Sevan's own brief. It is a sort of ghost-written book, with Foot as ghost, for Biographer Foot was not only a close friend and passionate partisan; he is today what Bevan was-Member of Parliament for the Welsh miners of Ebbw Vale and Socialism's most bitter and intransigent voice in the House of Commons. Thus he can hardly be expected to stress the central irony of Sevan's life: that a man cannot make himself, as Bevan did, an effective tribune of the poor, the obscure and the powerless...
...small affairs of the past were more likely to be quiet, settled, near-permanent arrangements. A new factor, says Daily Mail Columnist Anne Scott-James, is the "sleaziness of the crowd with which the War Minister mixed." Says Muggeridge: "Fifty years ago people would have gone to Maida Vale and patronized one of the grandes cocottes. If there is anything new in this, it is the overlapping of the social life of Cliveden and of Ward." In short, Britain may be in danger of abandoning Actress Mrs. Pat Campbell's celebrated axiom about Edwardian London: "You can do anything...
...past four months have failed to get India and Pakistan any closer to a settlement of their bitter dispute over control of Kashmir. Last week in Karachi, the fifth round of talks again ended in stalemate as India once more stubbornly rejected Pakistan's claim to the rich Vale of Kashmir. Un willing to bear responsibility for breaking off the talks, Pakistan reluctantly agreed to another meeting later this month in New Delhi. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, due in Karachi for a meeting of the CENTO nations, would be taking time out to urge a Kashmir settlement...
...glimmer of compromise was visible. In a sharp departure from its previous inflexible stand, India indicated that it would be willing to partition Kashmir along a boundary other than the current U.N. cease-fire line, which now gives India two-thirds of the province, including all of the rich Vale of Kashmir. The new Indian proposal called for India to keep Ladakh, part of which is currently occupied by Red China, most of the predominantly Hindu area of Jammu, and one-half of the Vale, including the province's capital of Srinigar. Pakistan would get the rest...