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Sadat let slip some rare criticism of his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Egyptian army had not been properly trained under Nasser to fight an offensive war, Sadat declared-and it had also become too political. "The Egyptian army should have been converted to a fighting army after the 1956 Suez war," Sadat told al Hawadess. Egypt at that point had suffered a military setback, "but we turned it into a political victory" (when President Eisenhower forced Britain, France and Israel to desist in their combined attack on Egypt...
...EVENTUALLY one comes to the war in Vietnam, which grounds all of McGovern's charges of immorality. The American people have tired of the war since Nixon's less corrupt predecessor refused to disclose it eight years ago. But it is hardly clear that McGovern can claim that immediate withdrawal has support in morality. Perhaps to abandon our allies in Asia without regard for their future is not the moral course but the expedient one. Doubtless thousands of students disagree with this analysis, but to refuse it they must apply more argument to the problem rather than pious phrases...
...minimum, though, Shultz has freed U.S. policy from the aggressively nationalistic line pursued by his predecessor John Connally. Connally adamantly refused to pledge that the U.S. would make the dollar convertible again -that is, buy back new dollars that other nations acquire in dealings with the U.S. and wish to exchange for gold, S.D.R.s or other assets. Shultz confided to reporters last week that his speech-writers tried several circumlocutions to hint-without quite saying it-that the U.S. would restore convertibility once its international payments came back into balance. Instead, the Secretary decided simply to make the flat promise...
Beginning the day after Learson steps down, IBM will require its 37 other top officers to retire at 60. The new age limit will apply to Learson's predecessor, Thomas J. Watson Jr., who will turn 60 on Jan. 8, 1974. Chief executive of IBM for 15 years, Watson gave up that title last year after a heart attack but remained a member of the company's board and its top decision-making body, the Corporate Office. IBM's present retirement age of 65 will continue to cover the remainder of its 265,493 employees, but some...
...golf, do some more sailing, travel, and spend more time with my family. I've had 37 years of fun working with IBM. My wife and I now want to have some fun loafing." Spectacled and softspoken, Cary offers a noticeable contrast to his imposing and forceful predecessor. But Cary is not expected to introduce any alterations to IBM management style. Says a former IBM financial executive: "At IBM, the players may come and go, but the play remains the same...