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...recent visit to Tanzania, Chou Enlai ineptly pronounced Africa today was "exceedingly favorable" for revolution-which to incensed African leaders suggested that Peking was plotting their own downfall. Russia and China both had to write off major investments in Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella, who managed to woo Moscow and Peking simultaneously before his precipitate ouster last June. Still, as the Russians proved when they sent arms to the Congo rebels, both Moscow and Peking continually attempt to influence students, intellectuals, officials...
...worldly successes are due to its exuberant courting of small savers and borrowers at home. It makes loans to individuals and firms at 12% interest, compared to the usual 25%, also offers liberal mortgage terms. It has opened Thailand's first drive-in bank and, to woo women customers, has a branch that is staffed entirely by women. "There are some things women can explain better to women," says Mrs. Punnee Kantasen, the branch manager. "Talking to a woman about small loans is easier than trying to explain...
...series of belt-tightening measures designed to whip Britain's flabby economy into competitive trim. The one issue that might conceivably have toppled the government, steel nationalization, has been discreetly shelved until the next parliamentary session, starting in November. In the breathing spell thus gained, Wilson aims to woo the Liberal Party to his side, thereby boosting his effective majority to a relatively dependable...
...three days because, they cornplained, the beef carcasses were "too hard" to bone; they forced the company to let its meat thaw longer. In West Germany, smart Hausfrauen no longer complain if a German cleaning woman fails to appear on the job; they get to work themselves and woo her back with flowers. In Tokyo, maids quit at 5:30 p.m. to attend night school, and carpenters, who now stop for two tea breaks a day instead of one, expect a free bottle of piping-hot sake when work ends...
...tough little general's relations with Premier Souvanna are far from smooth. When the two were invited to Indonesia's Bandung anniversary seven weeks ago, Souvanna tried to keep Kong Le at home, knowing that Indonesia would like nothing better than to woo his neutralist general with offers of arms and aid. Indonesia's President Sukarno threw everything at him, including bare-breasted Balinese dancers and bushels of flowers. But Kong Le took care of himself: he refused the offer of guns, danced with the girls-and accepted a pair of sewing machines for his tailor shops...