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...have just killed your commander" and "Our brothers have just captured three of your recoilless rifles." One by one, the Red guns fell silent; then the defenders fixed their bayonets and sprinted from their rifle pits. The Reds fled-only to return in regimental strength four days later and trigger a bloody battle among the rubber trees that was still raging at week...
...been stripped of his political rights, returned to Brazil from 16 months of self-exile in Paris. Only he knows what he hoped to accomplish. Arriving immediately after gubernatorial elections in which his P.S.D. party scored impressive victories, he might even have expected his dramatic reappearance to trigger a popular counterrevolution against President Castello Branco's revolutionary government. What it provoked was the anger of the linha dura (hardline) military officers behind Castello Branco and a harsh new Institutional Act (TIME, Nov. 5), which dissolved all political parties and effectively put Brazil under rule by decree. Kubitschek himself...
Allen. Then Barry Goldwater got up and gave him some good-natured but sharp political advice. "I'm that trigger-happy s.o.b. you've all read about," said Goldwater. "But things could be worse. Robert McNamara could be President and I could be Secretary of Defense." As a matter of fact, Goldwater added, he had been offered a job in the Johnson Administration-"as food taster for Bob McNamara...
Whether Continental's discovery, or British Petroleum's two other finds nearby, will be rich enough for commercial exploitation may take months to determine. The Continental announcement was more than enough, however, to trigger a scramble in oil shares on the London stock exchange last week and heat up the race to get down to the sea in rigs. Of the 23 consortiums that Britain has licensed to explore its area of the North Sea, only five (Continental and British Petroleum, plus Shell-Esso, Signal and the Phillips Group) are actually drilling. Holding up the others: the slowness...
...fulfil its commitments. The combination of international pressures and economic sanctions must be invoked before exacerbating the tension in Rhodesia by bloodshed. Britain itself with American support, the Commonwealth, and--above all--the United Nations must all strive to achieve an equitable solution. The crisis demands resolute action; trigger-happy recklessness--even in the cause of freedom--is just as reprehensible in Rhodesia and in the Dominican Republic...