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...Elected, in a move to postpone a final showdown, 20 leaders from all major factions to the new national committee, including Foster, Gates and Dennis...
Eisenhower thus threw out an apparent hint that the United States stands ready, if a showdown comes, to support some kind of United Nations sanctions against Israel for her failure thus far to head U.N. demands to withdraw...
PENN-TEXAS CORP. now owns a surprisingly high 40% of stock in Fairbanks, Morse, and is still buying heavily for proxy showdown March 27. Penn-Texas bought 161,450 shares during January, by month's end held 550,050. Present Fairbanks management owns about...
Neiman Fellow William Worthy, who recently returned from Red China, said yesterday morning that his passport could not "be revoked at a press conference" and awaited official action by the State Department as a "showdown after a decade of infringement on the rights of the press." His passport had been revoked by Department of State officials at a December 28 press conference...
Uncertain Horseman. The Assembly, made up as it is, is no place to pursue abstract justice, or even sensible compromise. Diplomats expect to deal more privately and directly. Washington is convinced that Egypt's Nasser is a changed man since the October invasion showdown. Having learned from that crisis that headstrong action can bring heavy consequences, say U.S. diplomats, Nasser is no longer a hero on horseback ready to lead the Arabs to glory, no longer so sure of himself, and blows hot and cold. Though he has weathered the immediate storm, his long-range position...