Now that Fowler Hamilton is out as Foreign Aid chief, plan is to lump foreign aid, Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, Export-Import Bank etc., into a giant international handout-bureau. Probable chief: JFK brother-in-law Sargeant Shriver…. Sudden switch of Emmet Hughes, one-time Eisenhower speechwriter, more recently Eisenhower skeptic; one-time Rockefeller speechwriter, now ex-employee Rockefeller Foundation to Newsweek regarded as politically important. Hughes will write weekly political column for Newsweek which, as predicted, is developing into Kennedy organ…. Aviation Week reports Soviet missile sites in Cuba were constructed in “soft” pattern. Significance: Such sites are useful only for surprise first strike attack and of no value as ‘‘potentially survivable retaliatory force.”… Republicans encouraged by total turnout figures in election which show 5 per cent drop in Democratic off-year voting, 5 per cent GOP gain…. President’s biggest trouble, it turns out, was getting Administration measures brought to floor. Only 44.3 per cent of his bills were reported out of committee in 87th Congress.
Portugal has refused to allow U.S. planes ferrying arms to India to use Azores Air Base as return billet doux for Nehru snatch of Goa…The Goan Association of Kenya has asked U Thant to conduct a plebiscite in Goa. The Association claims 18,000 Goans (out of approximately 650,000) have fled since India take-over…The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which rushed last week to place itself under SEATO protection, has only one road; had no post-office until a month ago…. As of Nov. 13, President Tshombe of Katanga still had not seen draft of Congolese constitution he is being pressured to sign…Because Central Government won’t act in matter, Tshombe has announced Katanga will try a Central Congolese officer believed implicated in the assassination and cannibal murder of thirteen Italian airmen a year ago at Kindu.
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