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...well-placed civil servants. In Indonesia, soldiers stop autos at gunpoint to extort fees from travelers, wander into shops to demand goods for nothing. In Thailand, the wise businessman bidding on a government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming: "Why, you've dropped your wallet with 50,000 bahts [$2,400] in it!" One foreign contractor who did just that was dumfounded when the Thai official calmly replied, "Oh, no, I dropped my wallet with 150,000 bahts...
...outfit. At once they were in a furious firefight and the Marine commander stubbornly waved off U.S. artillery fire and air strikes so that he could keep his own men in close contact with the enemy. After 22 hours of almost nonstop righting, the V.C. broke off to slip away by night. They left behind 150 dead and a number of prisoners, including the battalion's deputy commander. Along the rectangle's rim, U.S. and South Vietnamese troopers killed 135 other guerrillas, blew up nearly 700 bunkers...
...would still try to follow "the moderate way, as before," but the outlook "is not bright. The pressures are great, particularly the pressures of Arab extremism, which is not helping us solve the problems brought on by the current catastrophe." Hussein declares that he will not allow Jordan to slip into the Soviet orbit, is convinced that Jordan's future is still best served by friendship with the West. He has been encouraged by hints from Secretary of State Dean Rusk that the U.S. might resume military aid to his country...
Congresses. Though the Russians themselves silently queue up for Lenin's tomb outside the Kremlin in a permanent line stretching halfway across Red Square, Intourist guides slip foreign tourists in near the front, and waiting time rarely exceeds 20 minutes. Due decorum is advised: one U.S. tourist was asked by the guards to take his hands out of his pockets to show respect...
...prompted New Orleans' Metropolitan Crime Commission to call for an investigation of the D.A. himself. As for Garrison, he charged that NBC was trying to "torpedo the state's case." He also asserted that NBC had offered to pay Russo's expenses if he wanted to slip away to California before Shaw went on trial. NBC News President William R. McAndrew denied Garrison's charges, but the following day Russo told a news conference that he had indeed been offered such help if he agreed to "side with NBC" and help "wreck the Garrison investigation...