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...with French authority. Last week while Abdallah was away from the capital city of Moroni, the opposition leader and a force of 50 men took over the radio and TV station and caught Abdallah's Territorial Guard totally by surprise. "The mouthings of that man [Abdallah] are henceforth meaningless," declared Comoro's new chief, Prince Said Ibrahim Jaffar, who promised to restore close ties with France within the framework of independence and give Mayotte autonomy inside a Comoro federation. The coup was bloodless, and everybody but Abdallah seemed happy with the reversal of history's usual anticolonial...
...says he found it "hard to watch the Communist takeover this spring. Although the U.S. was terribly wrong, and while Hanoi is miles ahead of the Thieu government in terms of seeing to the welfare of the people, ideologically. I just can't agree with Communism, and emotionally, the meaningless deaths of my friends killed there leave me very unhappy. I probably hoped that the Third Force would somehow come to power and end the war, but I guess I really didn't have too many hopes...
...bill's backers, meanwhile, are scoffing at alarmist assessments. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington notes sarcastically that Administration experts have estimated the amount of production that might be lost at anywhere from 14 million to 141 million tons a year; the figures, he says, are "basically meaningless...
...will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw, either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement...
...Schylling said that "fluctuations in any one week could make that figure meaningless...