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...rise and fall of nations is an endless process of territories being joined and rejoined in varying mosaics, of people displaced and resettled, of power expanding and contracting. A new nation may be established through conquest, as was England when the Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons, who had in turn shaken off the Danes, who had in turn put down the Anglo-Saxons. The original population of France was subdued by the Romans, whose remnants were driven out by the Franks, who in turn established an empire that under Charlemagne embraced large parts of Germany and Italy. In most cases...
...newspaper, charged that the CIA goaded Israel to attack, and that just before the war the Pentagon shipped Israel 450 warplanes, 400 tanks and 1,000 pilots and navigators. Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese and Iraqi dock workers refused to unload them...
...surly bunch of Harvard and Yale trackmen traveled to England to see if their Anglo-Saxon bretheren at Oxford and Cambridge could exert themselves beyond a dainty lift of a teacup. The Englishmen in fact, could. And since that time, they have won 11 of the 21 trans-A antic meets...
...prospects of effective U.N. intervention receded, the U.S. and Britain teamed up to chart a different course of action, final details of which were approved when Wilson arrived for his one-day visit. Under the Anglo-American plan, a declaration would be circulated among the world's maritime nations affirming that 1) the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, and 2) all signatories are entitled to exercise the right of "free and innocent passage...
...subsidiaries of U.S. and Anglo-Dutch parents, which grapple with each other in markets all over the globe, P. & G. and Lever naturally did not give in easily. The pressure to de-escalate began last August, when a Monopolies Commission study found that, though neither P. & G.'s 46% share of the market nor Lever's 44% constituted a monopoly, the expense of their competitive practices was "against the public interest." The commission recommended that they cut their promotion budgets by 40%, pass a 20% price reduction on to the consumer. The Board of Trade, taking a righteous...