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...Administration may or may not bluff Russia and China out of replying to U.S. escalation in Vietnam but the bombings will certainly accomplish one thing. They will create a sharper hatred for America than already exists in most of Asia. What do Asians gain from a doctrine that promises to preserve freedom for Americans by pounding the jungles and sweeping the villages with napalm-bomb fires wherever Communism threatens? And one day, in this or some other war like it, the opponent may not back down. Nuclear war would not be the last even in world history, but the United...
...tone for talks by blithely announcing that his government planned to take over all mining, forestry and transportation concessions in the Congo. The stunned Belgians realized that at last they were going to have to reach a settlement. Last week, as Tshombe backed away from the takeover bluff and committed his government to repay a major part of its debts to Belgium, the Belgian negotiators signed over control of the stock-worth $300 million or more...
Died. Kent Cooper, 84, general manager of the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A bluff, hearty farm boy from Indiana, "K.C.," as he liked to be called, was the visionary who built the A.P. into the world's largest news-gathering service: in the 1930s he pioneered the widespread use of the Teletype ticker and the transmission of photos by wire and radio, but made his major contribution by breaking ties with the cartel of European news services that once monopolized overseas stories, instead marshaling his own army of reporters...
Good Manners. In Chicago, where two armories provided tennis fans their only outlet for 20 years, eleven indoor emporiums now thrive, including the swish two-year-old courts in suburban Winnetka financed by the Arthur C. Nielsens (of ratings fame) and the swish Lake Bluff Bath and Tennis Club, whose ultra-exclusive membership (an applicant must have "good tennis manners and be a nice person") has access to squash courts, an ice-skating rink, sauna and toboggan hill in addition to two quality indoor courts. Even Washington, D.C., minus a single indoor club to its name until last fall, today...
...deterrence-U.S., Soviet, European-that have transformed the nature of war and diplomacy. In the past, Aron points out, war was simply the last stage of strategy, Clausewitz' "extension of politics." Now, as in the 1962 Cuban confrontation, the great powers are committed to a war of bluff in which strategists insist that the bluff must never be called or war declared. "For the first time in history," writes Aron, "entire weapons systems, developed at the cost of billions of dollars, are retired without ever having been put to any but purely diplomatic use; or we might...