Panama: The Old Man & the Bridge
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EGYPT: Freedom, Yes & No
Fifty thousand Egyptians crowded under a vast, quilted tent in Cairo's Republic Square one evening last week to hear Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaim his long-promised constitution. This was the moment when Egypt was to pass from military dictatorship to “republican and democratic government.” To mark the switch, Nasser and his eight-man junta had resigned their army commissions
China Drought Impact Grows, Hits Shanghai
— China’s worst drought in a half-century is deepening, with the parched weather that has left millions in the Yangtze River region without enough drinking water pushing inflation higher and adding to widespread power shortages.
AFGHANISTAN: Cloak & Box Trick
Lean, wiry Bacha Sakao, “The Water Carrier,” bandit King of Afghanistan sat, unconcerned, in the capital city of Kabul last fortnight while the King he drove from the throne, plump, oily Amanullah, prestidigitated in far off Kandahar to show his fitness to rule. To suspicious Kandahar Afghans plump Amanullah promised last fortnight to show the famed Khirkai Shereef , a religious relic of great potency kept in a locked box which only “a man fit to be King” can open