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...Housing and Local Government was jailed on charges of complicity in the assassination. Moreover, Ceylon's economy was in bad shape, and Daha's chaotic Sri Lanka Freedom Party was so badly split that the regime survived one no-confidence motion by only one vote. Last week, after 70 days in office, Daha decided it was time to quit, with a capital Q. Dissolving Parliament, Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke called for new elections March 19. In the meantime, Dahanayake will head an interim government...
...most deeply felt charge that serious Latin American critics level at U.S. policy is not stinginess or economic domination, but simple indifference-a lack of attention in high places. Last week the attention was coming from all over. President Dwight Eisenhower dropped word that he plans to make a good-will visit to Latin America next spring, before his trip to Russia (likely stops: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile). And politicians of every stripe were paying Latin America the ultimate compliment of playing expert...
Claims Staked. Three presidential hopefuls have staked out claims on the area. In Puerto Rico last week, Senator Hubert Humphrey proposed a program of greater economic aid, arms reductions, a review of U.S. trade and tariff policies. Adlai Stevenson will tour Latin America in February. Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department's 1940-44 coordinator of inter-American affairs, recently suggested a single common market embracing the U.S. and the 20 Latin American states. Other high-level concern...
Chosen by political insiders, the President of Mexico is a kind of surprise package that the electorate gets to know well only after he takes office. Last week, as Mexico City's avidly progovernment press marked the first anniversary in office of Adolfo LÓpez Mateos with editorials boasting of triumphs in every field, the President's own modesty and conservatism showed through. Just before climbing into a bus for a trip north to dedicate some typically modest public works (one road and one school) in Querétaro State, LÓpez Mateos declared simply...
...Last week, fielding questions from textile workers in Querétaro, LÓpez Mateos handled one of Mexico's hottest issues: religion. Countering the violently anticlerical traditions of the Mexican revolution, he promised "absolute freedom of belief" and told a Roman Catholic worker that his convictions "should remain invariable, letting neither time nor intrigue shadow them...