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Such a general staff would be composed of the ablest available career officers, freed of obligations to or responsibilities within the separate services. They would work under a Chief of General Staff, who would make out their fitness reports and from whom they would get their promotion recommendations. The general staff would serve as an expert, unified, military planning and advisory board to the Secretary of Defense. A primary responsibility: working out an integrated war plan for all the armed forces...
...Middle East Nikita Khrushchev posed as an altruist. Advancing $563 million in arms and economic aid to the Arab nationalists of Syria and Egypt, he cried: "Is Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. We have only one objective, that the peoples be freed from colonial dependence." Last week Pravda offered the pro-Western Arab states of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq "ready Soviet Union cooperation in economic development," if they too would accept "the same [i.e., neutralist] principles" as Syria and Egypt...
...indictment was quashed, the 13 freed. Later, on an appeal by the prosecution, the state supreme court reversed Judge Schoolfield, ordered that the Teamsters be tried. Later also, according to Senate investigators, Local 515 chalked off another $1,500 to legal expenses. The 13 defendants were brought to new trial. This time they were freed for keeps. The legal mechanics: Judge Schoolfield ordered the jury to return a verdict of not guilty because the prosecution had failed to prove that the 13 Teamsters committed the violent acts involved...
Girlish Sins. The Diary is full of the fun, the beauty, and some of the pain of growing up in a primitive town where recently freed slaves were still living with their old masters by choice. Helena is by turns gay and sad, willful and full of remorse for her girlish sins. But one thing she is from beginning to end-a fine little writer, with a gift for precise observation that many an adult writer develops only after years of practice. She is now 77, wrote nothing else that got into print. But to the small shelf of notable...
...simplest solution lies in the formation of a Presidential Council, which would be created by law and would give the Chief Executive, to sit at his side, at least five persons who have been nominated by him and been confirmed by the Senate. These five men would be freed from the responsibility of administering any of the departments of the Executive branch, as Cabinet secretaries do today...