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Communist Kitty. Predictably, the Communist reaction to the conference was swift and negative. Hanoi and Peking dismissed it as a "big fraud" and an "insipid farce." Moscow said it masked U.S. plans to escalate, not end the war. Meeting in New Delhi, Yugoslavia, the United Arab Republic and India urged an immediate end to U.S. bombing of the North and withdrawal of all foreign-meaning U.S.-troops. Asked if that applied to the North Vietnamese as well as the Americans, U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser smiled blandly. "The North Vietnamese," he purred, "say they do not have any forces...
...subside as long as the Viet Cong were around, a U.S. briefing officer argued: "The North Vietnamese have always provided the cutting edge for the Viet Cong. Subtract them from the picture and Saigon could handle the situation by itself." If not, highly mobile U.S. troops could make a swift return. Actually, the point was inserted more for bargaining than anything else. "This isn't much of a timetable," an Australian diplomat conceded, "and Gromyko will see the weak spots. But at least it gives him something to take around to other Communist countries...
...When the old Imam Ahmad ("Ahmad the Devil") ruled Yemen, justice was swift-and final. Enemies were decapitated and their heads carried around town on long poles. Lesser offenders lost their hands or feet. Last week General Abdullah Sallal, leader of the Egyptian-backed regime that overthrew the Ahmad dynasty in 1962, borrowed a leaf from Ahmad's book of horrors. In little more time than it took to cock a rifle, he staged a drumhead trial for seven of his former colleagues, including an ex-Cabinet Minister, then sent them swiftly to their deaths before a firing squad...
...last time McNamara was in Viet Nam, the U.S. had 180,000 men in the country and was just beginning to untangle the logistical lash-ups caused by the unprecedentedly swift buildup. This week he will find a force of 320,000 men who, in the eleven months that have intervened since his seventh visit, have kept the Reds from winning a single major battle, have 'discouraged them from mounting any attack in battalion strength or greater since March, and are finding that the badly hurt guerrillas are ever more willing to surrender. Seldom, if ever, have the Communist...
...night the world would remember-April 14, 1912. Sarnoff picked up a message from the British steamship Titanic. "Hit an iceberg," it read. "Sinking fast." For 72 hours, he stayed at the key, guiding rescue ships and relaying names of survivors. Thereafter, his rise at Marconi was swift. In 1919 RCA absorbed the company. Two years later, RCA Board Chairman Owen D. Young, somewhat awed by Sarnoff's knowledge of wireless and visions of the future of communications, appointed him general manager...