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This is a time of atonement in Cambridge--atonement for other people's alleged sins. It is the time of the voting for City Council and for the School Committee. Despite the absence of overt political recriminations, the interested observer cannot fail to note a marked stirring in heretofore inactive quarters and a superabundance of posters on lawns, cars, and telephone poles...
From the start, opportunist Jango Goulart showed that he understood the realities-and the possibilities-of his situation. No one knew better than he that if he made an overt grab for full power, a civil war would result in which he could only lose. In all the fog surrounding Jánio Quadros' resignation, the one certainty emerging is that Quadros never intended his Vice President Goulart to rule (presumably he thought the prospect so alarming that he would be called back). Before he resigned, Quadros summoned his three armed forces ministers and brusquely told them: "With this...
...worry was Nikita Khrushchev, who has recurrent nightmares over the prospect of a powerful, prosperous, united Europe as a next-door neighbor. "Never before in Britain's history has there been such a case of economic and political capitulation," raged Radio Moscow, added nervously, "nor one so overt and far-reaching in its consequences." For not the least of the gains from the emergence of a united Europe would be an incalculable strengthening of the Western alliance. Said British Labor M.P. Desmond Donnelly, summing up the significance of entry into the Common Market: "Britain's frontier will...
Returning to Moscow while John Kennedy jetted to Washington, Khrushchev appeared in bubbling good spirits. It seemed unlikely that Khrushchev would push the U.S. into any overt action by deliberate international provocation. Yet there was also little chance that he would ease tension by seeking a viable solution for two of the U.S.'s most difficult problems: Berlin and Laos...
...might be patriotically moved to side with Castro if the invaders seemed mere U.S. mercenaries. The U.S. position is that of coach and well-wisher cheering from the sidelines but forbidden on the playing field. In a letter to the New York Times last week, the obvious dangers of overt U.S. participation in the fight against Castro were clearly laid down by two Latin affairs experts, Assistant Editor Raymond D. Higgins of the Hispanic American Report and Associate Professor Martin B. Travis of Stanford University. "Castro would surely be killed and become a martyr," they said. "Our action would...