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...party colleagues "would be better employed drawing comic strips than dealing with foreign affairs." In Denmark and Norway, some leftists also had strong reservations about the missile plan. For a while it looked as if NATO might degenerate into what the West Germans had always feared it could become if left alone to shoulder the nuclear responsibility: a two-tier organization of small powers and a "directorate" of larger ones...
...party leader and had not been replaced. It was possible that he might be forced back into the leadership by a draft for the sake of the election; if not, Canadians asked themselves, who would become Prime Minister if the Liberals won? In the swirl of uncertainties, many voters could not resist a swelling mood of a plague-on-both-your-houses. Growled the Ottawa Journal: "Stupidity, intellectual dishonesty and a lust for power conspired to force an election which the people of Canada assuredly do not want...
After nearly a year of fighting the remnants of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces, Hanoi's troops appear to have driven the guerrillas out of their last remaining towns and into sanctuaries, the jungles and mountains. Says Labbe: "As far as I could make out, there isn't a single population center in all of Cambodia, big or small, that is under Pol Pot control or that has a Khmer Rouge flag flying overhead...
Next morning Seoul's residents, still jittery over the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, learned that the sudden military maneuvering was not only an unexpected new twist to the Park case, but the opening of an ominous power struggle among top generals that could further jeopardize the country's uncertain political future. A terse announcement over government radio stated that Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53-effectively the country's senior officer in his capacity as martial law commander-had been arrested "in connection with the plot" against Park. Ten other...
...judge what kind of relationship will be struck between military and civilian forces. "The ominous factor is the sudden politicization of the army," explains a worried diplomat. "We had seen an orderly movement to a democratic system, but the use of military strength to change the personalities in charge could be traumatic...