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...Shake & Shock. Plainly, some of Ky's moves were more gestures than policies. Paris reacted to the cutting of diplomatic ties with characteristic hauteur, but showed no signs of withdrawing its cultural and economic missions in Saigon. De Gaulle's only reported comment was to inquire loftily: "Qui est Ky?" It will take more than a few executions to cure the corruption that plagues Saigon and most other Asian capitals. Moreover, price controls on rice and other consumer goods do not get to the root of the problem: scarcities caused by Viet Cong control of roads between farming...
Nonetheless, Ky's first ten days succeeded in their announced purpose to "shake and shock the country out of its lethargy." Where earlier governments tried to rule by consensus, Buddhist Ky is applying casuistry and a very un-Vietnamese puritanism. Impetuous and inexperienced as he is, Ky sounds far more believable in his demands for austerity than his predecessors did. Moreover, he has an air of no-nonsense realism that has been sadly lacking in South Viet Nam. To Saigon newsmen's howls of outrage over his newspaper shutdown, Ky replied with icy calm: "Communists...
...Washington last week at the first National Conference on Law and Poverty, attended by 500 U.S. jurists and lawyers. President Johnson's anti-poverty administrators suggested that lawyers should step in and help the poverty program by seeing to it that the poor are given a fair shake by everybody from slumlords to loan sharks. Said Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach: Lawyers' ethical standards "have served us well and will continue to do so, but I cannot believe their purpose is to prevent legal services from being offered to individuals who desperately need them but do not know...
...from panicky. Sucking his pipe, he steps gingerly through the subtle maze of Laotian politics, playing the delicate game of nods, winks and selective handshakes. At a recent Soviet reception, Souvanna greeted his Russian hosts warmly, then whisked carefully past the Red Chinese and North Vietnamese to shake hands with the British, French and U.S. ambassadors...
...campaign was in the standard contemporary style that Europeans still refer to as Modern American, with TV commercials, and a computer for election night. Gorbach demonstrated clear campaign superiority by 1) hiring a helicopter in order to shake hands over a 10,000-mile circuit, and 2) using Polaroid lensmen to snap him with individual voters. To no avail. Austrians prefer their own way of making a President, and Jonas won with 2,324,474 votes, or 50.69% of the total...