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...Diem, who is suspicious of any possible concentration of power against him. The fortified-villages operation, for instance, is split between two ministerial committees, one headed by Diem's powerful brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, the other by one of Diem's secretaries of state; there is no liaison between the committees and very little within them-six or seven separate plans for rural reconstruction have been drawn up, and none are really working. Moreover, U.S. advisers complain that units of the South Vietnamese army can hardly make a move without first clearing it with Saigon, wasting priceless time...
...Under 1947 agreements still in effect, the U.S., Britain and France maintain individual outposts in East Germany in exchange for similar Soviet outposts in Frankfurt, Bad Salzuflen and Baden Baden. The original purpose of the missions was to maintain liaison among the wartime Allies; now they operate as legal checking systems, cruising the highways and keeping their eyes open for military movements...
...SECRETARIAT FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. One of the newest of Vatican bureaus, this secretariat is not considered part of the Curia, nonetheless rates as one of the most influential (and most public) branches of the church's government. It serves as the liaison office between Rome and non-Catholic churchmen, will handle the invitations to Protestant and Orthodox leaders who are expected to attend the Second Vatican Council in October as observers. The presiding cleric: Augustin Cardinal Bea, 81, a German Jesuit who was confessor to Pope Pius...
...place last month came a substitute French proposal ordered by le grand Charles, which even seemed to kill the long-accepted supranational economic control built into the Common Market. More than that, France's new draft suggested a European defense structure that made no provision whatever for liaison with or membership in the NATO system. De Gaulle himself dropped some hints of what he really was after: a "Europe des patries [Europe of fatherlands]," meaning a confederation of cooperating and sovereign nations. Since France is the only continental power developing a nuclear force, De Gaulle obviously expected...
...McCormack-style Congressmen like Massachusetts' Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. and New York's James J. Delaney, members of the key House Rules Committee, and Massachusetts' Edward P. Boland, who, as the only intimate shared by McCormack and Jack Kennedy's liaison man Larry O'Brien, can serve as a link between the House and the White House...