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...apologize to his Canadian hosts or even appear contrite for the clamor he raised with his call for a Quebec libre. Well aware that his new statement would only keep the hassle alive, he said with a kind of wistful pride: "It's always been like that." Lest any of his ministers had forgotten, he then recalled the brouhahas of other days-from his refusal to meet F.D.R. after the Yalta Conference in 1945 to his recognition of Red China in 1964. The Canadian government, however, refused to think of the incident in such grandiose terms. Prime Minister Lester...
...Republicans, Vietnam hawks and doves, and mostly Southerners and Midwesterners. It is understandable that Senator Fulbright (D-Ark.), a leading Vietnam critic, should say that the Congo commitment reflected a U.S. intention to meet aggression everywhere. He asked the Administration to show "some restraint in this kind of intervention" lest the U.S. invite Russia and Communist China to step up their in volvement in Africa...
...Jordan has a longer border than any Arab country. The divisions between the conservative, pro-Western Hussein and the Arab left led by Egypt's President Nasser are so fundamental that the war has just papered them over, not erased them. Hussein has to move with extreme care lest the left seize on his willingness to negotiate with Israel and invite the volatile Palestinians to move against...
...resistance he offers to the water; it is something else again for "bennies," "dexies" and other assorted pep pills to pile up on the locker-room shelf. Almost inevitably, the International Olympic Committee announced that before the 1968 games in Mexico City all athletes will be carefully checked lest they use any stimulating dope...
...drop this format which is based on obvious names, locations, and concepts. It's going to have to listen a lot more carefully to what people are talking about and thinking about. Its reporters and writers must start asking new questions and must learn to write to be read, lest they be superficial and inflated at the same time...