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Revealed at AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting, that many big unions in bad financial shape due to unemployment. Some running as much as $100,000 a month in the red…. Canadian unemployment in January reached 11 per cent…. Some U. S. farmers in northern states whose own land is in soil bank, transporting equipment across border to raise wheat in partnership with Canadians…. Good news for auto industry, the report that 5 million cars were scrapped in 1960…. Rumor spreading that J. Edgar Hoover will be retired in June, presumably because of friction between him, Attorney General Bob Kennedy…. America, journal of Pan-American Union, in February issue features reviews of two anti-U. S. books on Cuba, C. Wright Mills’ Listen Yankee!, Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezey’s Anatomy of a Revolution.

First two shiploads of Australian grain to arrive in Communist China distributed to troops…. Chinese Nationalists report that, of duds fired at Quemoy, Matsu, 80 per cent are of Soviet manufacture…. A Laotian weekly, The Voice of the People, suggests a partition of Laos to solve present crisis…. One reason Congolese troops reluctant to engage other regular Congolese forces in battle, says Wall Street Journal, is that half of troops of all factions are members of a single tribe—the Balangas…. French paratroop Col. Trinquier has returned to Katanga from Paris, after being placed on retired list. Trinquier reportedly will head Katanga army…. Random House bringing out children’s biography of Kwame Nkrumah…. Moscow’s Friendship University—the training school for African and Asian students—has been renamed “Patrice Lumumba Friendship of the Peoples University. “

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Revealed at AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting, that many big unions in bad financial shape due to unemployment. Some running as much as $100,000 a month in the red…. Canadian unemployment in January reached 11 per cent…. Some U. S. farmers in northern states whose own land is in soil bank, transporting equipment across border to raise wheat in partnership with Canadians…. Good news for auto industry, the report that 5 million cars were scrapped in 1960…. Rumor spreading that J. Edgar Hoover will be retired in June, presumably because of friction between him, Attorney General Bob Kennedy…. America, journal of Pan-American Union, in February issue features reviews of two anti-U. S. books on Cuba, C. Wright Mills’ Listen Yankee!, Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezey’s Anatomy of a Revolution.

First two shiploads of Australian grain to arrive in Communist China distributed to troops…. Chinese Nationalists report that, of duds fired at Quemoy, Matsu, 80 per cent are of Soviet manufacture…. A Laotian weekly, The Voice of the People, suggests a partition of Laos to solve present crisis…. One reason Congolese troops reluctant to engage other regular Congolese forces in battle, says Wall Street Journal, is that half of troops of all factions are members of a single tribe—the Balangas…. French paratroop Col. Trinquier has returned to Katanga from Paris, after being placed on retired list. Trinquier reportedly will head Katanga army…. Random House bringing out children’s biography of Kwame Nkrumah…. Moscow’s Friendship University—the training school for African and Asian students—has been renamed “Patrice Lumumba Friendship of the Peoples University. “