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...another matter. Because he still has to contend with Dwight Eisenhower's great popularity, Johnson cannot permit White House-Senate relationships to become too strained. Yet he cannot be too soft toward the Administration for fear of antagonizing the liberal Northern Democrats. Finally, he must prevent a legislative deadlock, lest the Democrats be accused of conducting a do-nothing Congress...
Percentage Figuring. A year ago, Herbert Hoover Jr. was as little known to the public eye as his father had been, say, in 1914. He was basking on a California beach last September, reading a newspaper account of the deadlock in Iran and feeling pleased that he was not mixed up in it, when Secretary Dulles called him on the phone from Washington. Would Hoover go to Iran, as a State Department special adviser, and see if he could bring the obdurate British and the stubborn Iranians together? Hoover would. He now assesses the job (with shrewd help from Ambassador...
...West. It was about to become a business partner of the West again, and might soon become a military ally. The long and acrimonious Anglo-Iranian oil dispute was so close to settlement that Iran's top negotiator announced: "There is nothing important left which could produce a deadlock." And last week Premier Fazlollah Zahedi, Iran's soldier strongman, who arrested his nation's decline from Mossadegh to Moscow, indicated that he was prepared to steer his country away from its classic anxious neutrality...
...Communists had made good use of the three weeks. While military committees talked in calculated deadlock, while the West stayed its hand in indecision, the Viet Minh armies had pressed deep into the Red River Delta. The French had abandoned 3,000,000 Vietnamese. The fall of Hanoi, by siege or by default, seemed imminently possible...
...Bleak Deadlock. Next day Castillo Armas and Monzón flew to San Salvador for the first meeting in the gingerbread presidential palace. In high hopes, the two old friends started talks at 3 p.m. But twelve hours later, there was only a bleak deadlock. The issue: Which of them should take top power and responsibility? Sleepless Jack Peurifoy learned in alarm of the impasse and caught a plane to San Salvador. Looking like a dashing sportsman in a green Tyrolean hat and checked jacket, he talked separately with Monzón and Castillo Armas (whom he met there...