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Many U.S. and Vietnamese officials feared that a showdown between the two prideful generals might split the army, which is the primary unifying force in Viet Nam. They thus hoped that one or the other would retreat from the race. But, vowed Thieu, "I do not intend to withdraw...
...billion). Moore himself had been no help in the guessing game, having once said that any one of the bank's six executive vice presidents and most of the 36 senior V.P.s could handle the job. Headlined the Wall Street Journal as speculation grew: PRESIDENCY CONTEST IS NEARING SHOWDOWN...
...raises questions about all the unknowns in his life: what was his childhood like; was he really a sadistic Stalinist during the old days as a commissar of the Moscow subway; did his war experiences turn him away from Stalin; did he become a "goulash Communist" only after the showdown in Cuba; why did he permit Brezhnev and Kosygin to ease him out? This book fails to answer those questions, but only Nikita can do the job-and he is unlikely to write his memoirs...
...week's end the necessity for such a move seemed remote. Despite Nasser's ego-building bellicosity, he does not really seem to want a showdown, for he is well aware that the Arab world is badly fragmented and that Israel's finely honed army could turn back anything less than a concerted assault by all of its neighbors. In this situation, Johnson's strategy is to leave the problem in the U.N.'s lap for as long as possible in the hope that Egypt will somehow find a way to disimpale itself from...
Whatever the coming showdown in the Assembly may bring, another showdown is in the offing out in the streets. Both Communist-led and anti-Communist unions are threatening to hold anti-government demonstrations and strikes. Since the March elections, a series of strikes has swept France. Some 8,000 workers at France's largest shipyards have now been out for two months, and steelworkers in Lorraine have been off the job for five weeks. There is more in store, if large enough masses of Frenchmen can be persuaded to fall in step...