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Though the Cambodian government promised to pay for the damages, Sihanouk called the riot "inexcusable but comprehensible," said that the mob was goaded by "the repeated humiliations inflicted on their country by the Anglo-Saxon powers" (total U.S. aid to Cambodia since 1954: $340 million). In a calculated slap at the West, Sihanouk went on to discuss neighboring Laos in a way that all but recognized the Communist Pathet Lao as its real government, also announced that he would soon send a delegation to Hanoi to negotiate a border-demarcation agreement with Communist North Viet Nam. Since South Viet...
Memories of a Comet. These are the penalties that the Anglo-French combine must pay for its urge to be first. Though Sud-Aviation began cutting metal for the Concorde in December, the U.S. is still mulling over three designs submitted by Boeing, Lockheed, North American Aviation, is not scheduled to make a choice until at least May. The news of the All, however, proved that the U.S. is ahead in aircraft metallurgy and close to matching the Concorde in other areas. Says one Sud-Aviation engineer: "We realize that the Americans can do in six months what has taken...
...lance, and been a reasonably successful artists' agent. A typical de Antonio venture was his fictitious corporation, "Conservative Enterprises, Inc.," which he founded one day about five years ago. It was, of course, a satire on business: the company's board of directors was a list of impressive-sounding, Anglo-Saxon, and completely imaginary names. But by selling a Texas oil millionaire a warehouseful of nylon ropes that no one wanted because they had communications wires inside them, de Antonio made enough money out of Conservative Enterprises to take a rather long, rather pleasant vacation...
...shifting the crisis to the U.N. would give leverage to the Soviet Union, which can spoil any project the West pursues. At its own option, Russia can veto the Anglo-American proposal, thereby inviting a Turkish invasion of the island as the only means of rescuing Turkish Cypriots, or it can agree to the establishment of the force if it includes Communist troops, thus moving toward the historic Russian ambition of gaining a foothold in the Mediterranean...
...departure coincides with a low point in the fortunes of his Conservative Party. Yet most of the goals Macmillan set himself on entering 10 Downing Street were resoundingly achieved. Since succeeding luckless Anthony Eden after the 1956 disaster of Suez, Macmillan has aimed at 1) recementing the Anglo-American alliance, 2) easing the cold war, 3) freeing the African continent, and 4) obtaining Britain's entry into the European Common Market...