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...only Kennedy's star quality that made the difference. McGovern was cheered just as warmly and usually longer. Moreover, he began to get the feel of audience-tested lines. The most popular, repeated in litany: "Never again will we commit the precious young blood of this land to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship 10,000 miles away...
Diplomatic Trajectories. George McGovern lost no time in charging that Nixon "has manipulated Mr. Kissinger and American public opinion to appear to be negotiating, when actually he has been stalling to prop up General Thieu and his corrupt military regime in Saigon." Speculation both in Washington and Saigon, however, focused on the real possibility of a cease-fire being arranged, with the U.S. agreeing to halt the bombing and mining of the North in return for P.O.W.s. But any such exchange might still be weeks away, at least. In his talks with Kissinger, Thieu resisted any cease-fire plan that...
...action. Calmly, the King reviewed the honor guard, chatted with Cabinet ministers and waiting foreign diplomats. Also waiting was Hassan's Defense Minister, General Mohammed Oufkir, 52. Ruthless, his eyes always hidden by dark glasses, Oufkir for more than a decade had been considered the strongest prop of the Moroccan monarchy. He gained international notoriety in 1965 for his role in the Paris kidnaping and presumed murder of the Moroccan Leftist Mehdi Ben Barka; a French court convicted Oufkir in absentia of the crime...
...Rock Hudson, Dean Martin and Dennis Weaver. Then Dobrynin tried a little acting of his own. He hoisted a huge foam-rubber rock high over his head and pretended to threaten Kissinger. "Throw it at me," Kissinger taunted. "You've always wanted to." Dobrynin smiled and put the prop down...
...farm vote. But if prices do not taper off soon, the President may have to swallow hard and put controls on the prices that farmers charge. Farmers would undoubtedly howl that the Government was trampling on free enterprise. Yet they seldom complain about all the controls and subsidies that prop up prices in agriculture, which is one of the most highly regulated and protected enterprises in the land...