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CONFERENCES CONTINUED. Canadian police heavily guarded Ottawa hotels against warnings of bomb- throwing from the Quebec Liberation Front as I-oreign Ministers gathered for the meeting of the NATO Council, and Lord Home spoke up for the British independent nuclear deterrent. Efforts to bridge the GATT almost broke down in despair, but a last-minute softening by America and the EEC is enabling negotiations for tariff cuts to begin in May, 1964. African leaders met at Addis Ababa to devise a plan for African unity : Haiti became the first nation to be deprived of the vote at the UN for being more than two years behind in its dues; an Albanian trade union dele- gation went to Moscow perhaps in preparation for the Sino-Russian meetings in July; but President Tito firmly labelled Chinese policy as one of strife and dissension. Mr. Khrushchev meanwhile com- plained about the American launching of copper needles into the outer atmosphere and proposed a nuclear-free zone in the Mediterranean.
"R- wit...is-L-0N FIELD, invited to London for talks on the independence of Southern Rhodesia, rejoiced that his policies were 'wooden.' Sir Roy _Wetensky returned from a weekend spent with Dr. Verwoerd. Chief Anthony Enahoro was refused bail in Nigeria, and Mr. Dingle Foot, QC, per- mission to be his counsel. Kenya elected : the seventeenth-century constitution of the Bahamas is to be replaced at the beginning of next year; in an abortive coup in Turkey Ankara Radio changed hands three times in one night; Egyptian troops were feted home from the Yemen and fighting broke out once more in Laos.
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THE titter or SUGAR reached a record level ; Uneseo is sponsoring a meeting in Paris to discuss the world water shortage and a 'hydrologic decade' starting in 1965: the World Health Organisation is to study the causes of sterility : the film Cleo- patra must bring in $62 million before it can start making a profit and Petrosian won the World Chess Championship.
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aRTrisn INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT rose substantially in March; but so did the figure for British emigra- tion to Australia. The Ford dispute is back where It was several months ago with the management refusing ns to take back any of the famous seventeen men• A fifty m.p.h, speed limit is to be imposed on all roads except motorways during the peak holiday periods; the Hyde Park underpass was .di.scovered to have sprung thirty leaks; Mr. Selwyn 1--loYd presented his report on the Conservative Party to gentle Lord Poole and Mr. Macleod; those men wrote to party officials saying they ought not to expect the electorate to be grateful f °,1. Past achievements and fourteen Tottenham Clergy complained that banners carried by sup- porters of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club were an insult to the Lord.
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