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...presses his demands too far, the U.S. might be provoked to immediate action. Chou, thinking he saw an opportunity to exploit allied differences, replied slyly that he counted on the British to restrain the U.S. Eden was shocked into firmness. There should be no mistake, he said. If a showdown came in Indo-China, Britain would fight at the U.S.'s side...
College radio stations, including WHRB and the rest of the Ivy League, are preparing for a showdown with the Federal Communications Commission in order to maintain present operations. According to WHRB station manager William K. McElroy '55, the commission is expected to pass a new docket of restrictions late next month that might cut down the power of the stations to the point where "operation would be impossible...
...could better come to terms at Geneva if let alone. The critics persisted. Laniel and his Cabinet made the issue-whether to debate Indo-China now or later-an issue of confidence. Laniel won his vote of confidence 311 to 262, but it .was only a stay until another showdown soon-and probably the last confidence vote the Laniel government would...
...tightrope walking his way through trouble since last December, when he ordered a rough shake-up of the cabinet. His foot finally slipped when he arrested an army major as a plotter. General Alfredo Stroessner, 41, the army's 6-ft., German-descended commander, angrily called for a showdown, and an unplanned, unwanted revolution...
Honor Tracy was ready to stand behind her article, but the Sunday Times backed away from a showdown in court with the priest by writing a letter apologizing to him and paying $2,100 to a charity he designated. Writer Tracy was also infuriated when the Sunday Times printed an abject retraction in which the paper "admitted" that her article was "an unjustifiable attack on the character and posi tion" of Doneraile's Canon Maurice O'Connell. Indignant that the Sunday Times had disavowed her story without consulting her or trying to check the truth of the piece...