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...career official, mainly by deft use of telephone calls to the White House. But he soon found that other New Frontiersmen had studied their guerrilla manuals. Woodward's successor, Edwin Martin, demanded and got a clear line of authority from the White House and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. With that, Martin began bypassing Goodwin on key decisions...
Luckily the State Department has also stopped muddling up the Alliance for Progress with any further requests that the Organization of American States take a hand in harrassing the island. Previously, Mr. Rusk had attempted to stifle the Cuban economy to show that Communist economics could not possibly work, a policy that shot reviving juice into South America's demagogues of the left. His present program appears far more sensible: Show the Latin that an extremely leftist government invites Soviet control. Those leftists whose ideology comes not from indoctrination but from a heart-felt resentment of the vast part American...
...statement that "de Gaulle is getting too big for his breeches." The General answers him in a curt note to the Queen: "My dear young lady: It is evident that Britain is the sick man of Europe." In Washington, a vengeful group of Rhodes scholars led by Dean Rusk tears the Mona Lisa to pieces. The Paris mob finds an elderly American lady who looks like Grandma Moses, and shreds her in retaliation. De Gaulle challenges Rusk to a duel...
...department chairmen protesting Dean Ford's sanction of Cum Laude in General Studies offers to tear his elegant new residence to pieces. Ford, calling himself "quite fed up with my job, girls in Houses, CLGS, and the whole bloody mess" goes off to the Foret de Compiegnes as Rusk's second. "What an adventure," he sings on returning...
Struelens applied for permanent resident status as an immigrant. The Justice Department rejected his application in December on the basis of a curt note from Dean Rusk to Attorney General Robert Kennedy: "In my judgment, considerations of the foreign policy of the U.S. indicate that the exercise of discretion in favor of Mr. Struelens in the present case is not warranted." Out of 19,500 such applications last year, Justice turned down only 1,200. At a deportation hearing last week before an Immigration and Naturalization official, the only government evidence was the Rusk letter. By various appeals, Struelens...