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Actually, the possibility of a U.S. invasion never became really imminent. It was considered?and promptly rejected in any situation short of unspecified "dire circumstances" or as a "last resort." One reason was that the Joint Chiefs of Staff adamantly opposed such a move. Their opposition was so emphatic that they even offered political objections. If ordered to execute such an operation they would, of course, have done so, but most reluctantly...
DESPITE the dire prophecies of violence, Chile remained calm last week in the wake of precedent-shattering elections. In a three-way race for the presidency, the Marxist candidate, Dr. Salvador Allende, had received the highest vote, polling 36% v. 35% for his rightist opponent, former President Jorge Alessandri, and 28% for the candidate of President Eduardo Frei's Christian Democratic Party, Radomiro Tomic. Since no candidate won a popular majority, the Chilean Congress must decide between Allende and Alessandri on Oct. 24. In the meantime, just about everyone in Chile was acting as if Allende had already become...
...George Szell and Daniel Barenboim, it was largely a matter of having a large and effusive talent-or sheer ambition-that simply had to spread into other fields. When Pianist Leon Fleisher took the podium last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall, however, it was a case of dire necessity. Though he was once the foremost pianist of his generation, his right hand has been partly crippled since 1965, and he is trying to establish himself in a new career...
...budgeting for the future, though a total figure in the neighborhood of $225 billion was discussed for next year. In any case, the budget for the fiscal year that begins in July 1971 need not be submitted to Congress for six months. It presents serious problems. By the most dire Administration estimates, the projected deficit for that year could reach $23 billion-uncomfortably close to the highly inflationary $25 billion deficit that Lyndon Johnson...
...regional identification and area specialization by longtime hands at State, in what is supposed to be an era of modern diplomacy. But insularity can sometimes have advantages. Middle East posts of the State Department are mostly filled by diplomats whom Washington refers to as Arabists. They cabled or memoed dire forecasts of rioting, danger to American lives and property, and an end to relations with moderate Arab governments if the U.S. approved additional jet-plane sales to Israel. They also pointed out that Egypt and the Soviet Union, in fighting off Phantom raids over Cairo, were employing defensive measures...