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...Interim. With all these plans thrown into jeopardy, the Met's dismayed board of directors gathered to consider the problem of a new manager. From Italy, Bing cabled an offer to help, but the Met picked the man whom Gentele himself had chosen as his assistant: Schuyler G. Chapin, 49, a former vice president in charge of programming for Lincoln Center. Chapin has experience in concert management, training as a musician, and was formerly executive producer of Leonard Bernstein's television company, but he has no background in opera management. Said he: "I feel not unlike Harry Truman...
Essentially, the freeze is an interim effort to impose at least some restraint on the headlong Soviet expansion of ICBM forces. In recent years, while the U.S. concentrated on modifying existing missiles rather than building new ones, the Soviets have been adding more than 200 land-and 100 sea-based missiles to their capability every year. By now the Soviets have a 3-to-2 lead in ICBMS, and, under the terms of the freeze, they could have a 40% edge in missile-launching submarines; those margins make conservatives fret that the offensive-missile agreement could be more...
...condemnations of our barbaric government policy at every possible opportunity. It is not enough to wait until next January in hopes that a new President will take office with the declaration that all aid to Thieu is being cut off. Even if such a President were elected, the calm interim in America would be bought with the limbs and lives of brave Indochinese who refuse to give in to the dictates of an arrogant regime and an intransigent foreign power...
...held many posts in the British government: a member of Parliament from 1948 to 1950; Minister of Aviation from 1964-1965; Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967; and, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1967 to 1970. The author of several major political studies--among them, Mr. Atlee, An Interim Biography. H. H. Asquith, and Pursuit of Progress--he is a vigorous advocate of the Common Market...
...Communist interim government, no matter who headed it, would almost certainly lead a perilous existence. To survive, it would require massive U.S. financial and political support. There is no assurance that a government of disparate groups could achieve a settlement with the well-organized National Liberation Front and avoid domination by the Communists...