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Thin Dossiers. What most worried foreign leaders was the realization that while Johnson could gamble on domestic issues like civil rights and the tax cut at the risk of a temporary setback, to do so in the arena of foreign affairs might prove disastrous. And in that arena, they considered Johnson an unknown quantity. "The dossiers on Johnson," complained one Soviet official, "are thin...
...tempo, staging 1,021 "incidents," the highest weekly total on record. Their attacks cost the government 925 dead and wounded-again, the highest toll of any week of the war. Communist casualties were estimated at 740, and the guerrillas captured 450 weapons while losing only 140. The worst government setback since the coup occurred in a swampy stretch of the Mekong Delta 100 miles southwest of Saigon, where a band of Viet Cong ambushed an entire government company with mortars and machine guns. Of 130 men, 55 were killed and 34 wounded, six listed as missing. The Viet Cong escaped...
...series of decrees annulling as illegal 13 contracts with private companies in Argentina - nine from the U.S.* For Argentina's noisy nationalists, the cancellation was a rousing triumph; for the U.S., whose oilmen have $237 million in vested in the country's oil development, it was a setback that could seriously impair U.S. relations with Argentina's new government...
...million in 1962 despite a sales rise of 6.6%. The company was hard pressed to pay its debts and, to make matters worse, the cost of building its new petrochemical plant at Brindisi on Italy's heel overran its $160 million estimate by almost 50%. The setback was enough to topple fast-running Managing Director Piero Giustiniani, the driving force behind Montecatini's expansion, and leave full command in the hands of the more conservative chairman, Count Carlo Faina, 69. Faina, a papal count who claims direct descent from Napoleon, guided Montecatini in the early postwar years...
...Jackson. Hughes he later dismisses as "a writer with a talent for phrase-making." Ike takes due note of his own famed talent for non-phrase-making, but feels that by "focusing on ideas rather than on phrasing, I was able to avoid causing the nation a serious setback through anything I said in many hours, over eight years, of intensive questioning...