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...determined that the West must maintain its basic rights. He is unwilling to go to the Summit just for propaganda purposes or to size up Nikita Khrushchev ("He was pretty well cased at Vienna"); but he is willing to talk to Khrushchev if the cold war seems on the brink of nuclear conflict or if there seems a substantive chance for progress in easing some basic issues...
...nation's undisputed leader was affable, ascetic Premier U Nu, a sometime Buddhist monk who sought through his politics "to merit admission to the higher abode of nirvana." But U Nu was a lackluster administrator, and by 1958 Burma's rice-rich economy was on the brink of ruin and domestic Communists were gaining strength. Willingly, Socialist U Nu turned over power to a military caretaker regime headed by General Ne Win, who restored efficient government, defeated Communist guerrilla bands. After 15 months in office he held elections that promptly returned U Nu to power. Said...
...first letter, which was printed as an advertisement in the Washington Post two months ago, declared that shelters increase the possibility of nuclear war. "We may be more willing to go to the brink if we think survival is possible, and we are less likely to devise constructive steps which may ease tension and secure the peace...
Even though the Crimson whipped the Crusaders by an 82-27 count last year, the word from the track office was that last night's meet would be a lot closer. And it was. But a fighting Crimson aggregation rallied from the brink of certain defeat to pull out a thrilling 71 1/2-37 1/2 triumph. Why, there wasn't a dry eye in Briggs Cage...
...brink of Glacier 511, below the peak of Peru's highest (22,205 ft.) mountain, a block of ice the size of two Empire State Buildings had broken loose with an explosive crack and plunged down the mountainside into a funnel-like canyon above a cluster of eight villages around Ranrahirca (pop. 2,456, according to last July's census). As it tumbled, the ice mass smashed into house-sized chunks, knocked loose millions of tons of boulders and mud, and grew into one of the endless huaycos (landslides) that make life on Peru...