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Despite the controversy of future events, 1905 was clearly Trotsky's year. At the time of the St. Petersburg uprising, he was 26 and highly regarded for his political journalism. ("The Pen is here," cried Lenin's wife when a fugitive Trotsky barged into her London apartment at dawn.) While other Russian socialists spent themselves in factional squabbles abroad ("Deal with Russians," said Marx, "and all hell breaks loose"), Trotsky made his way back to St. Petersburg and the action...
...approach. Neither the NLF nor Saigon wants a coalition with the other, and it is difficult to envision how the existing leaderships could work together. From the viewpoint of the Government such an arrangement would, as one moderate Vietnamese leader put it, simply allow "the wolves into the chicken pen." More specifically it would surrender to the Viet Cong a major share in the exercise of authority in urban areas, which is precisely what they have been unable to win through military means...
Italy last week seemed to be heading toward a political fate that most people did not want but no one seemed able to avoid: the dissolution of Parliament and a general election a year ahead of schedule. If that were to hap-!pen, it might well mean the demise of the quarrelsome, cumbersome and increasingly ineptcenter-left coalition that has governed the country for the past ten years...
...once a robber makes his move, cooperate fully and never resist. Do not carry a gun. Says Robert McKinney, an ex-forger who runs Project JOVE: "If there is not enough money in the till, write the guy a check." That conjures up the wry possibility of the grocer, pen poised, inquiring, "And whom shall I make...
...story handy if newsmen inquired about Kissinger's absence; Presidential Aide Robert Haldeman and Secretary of State William Rogers. Kissinger's traveling party normally included Lord, 34, a generalist who has worked for both the State and Defense departments; his writing talent has made him known as "the fastest pen in Kissinger's shop...