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Castello Branco knew how to give orders and have them carried out, but had difficulty in making them liked or understood. Within a year after his rise to power, his methods had cost his government its earlier popularity, and the doughty little ex-general withdrew even further into himself. "A soldier learns patience," he once told a visitor. "I am a patient man." Prohibited from succeeding himself, he willingly left the limelight after Costa e Silva's inauguration as President in March. He spent most of his time with his family, was seen now and then at the opera...
...produce some genuine benefits. And it will be difficult for Ky to renege. For one thing, he cannot legally re-enter the presidential race now that the filing deadline has passed. For another, if he ever entertained hopes of engineering a coup, they evaporated as soon as General Khang withdrew his support...
...discussing far-out security and disarmament theories made him enough enemies over the years to deny him still higher office. He faced firm, if unofficial, opposition from a handful of conservative Republican Senators when the Eisenhower Administration proposed to nominate him to a high Defense Department post, and he withdrew from Government. Later, he was prominently mentioned as a candidate for a number of top-level jobs, but settled in 1963 for the relatively prosaic appointment as Secretary of the Navy, the post he has held ever since...
Monro said that before the war in Vietnam produced stepped-up draft calls, about 300 people withdrew each year--half voluntary and half required. But this year he anticipates that the College will ask less than 100 to drop out, because the pressures of the draft have produced an improvement in grades. The number of voluntary withdrawals will probably also fall, he added...
...Case of Dye. Major stumbling blocks remained over freer trade in grains and chemicals. But Roth, in a dramatic shift in the U.S. position, withdrew his demand for guaranteed access to Europe's grain markets. Reason: the best offer from the Common Market amounted to less grain than American farmers already sell to the Six. Still, the U.S. insisted that reluctant Europeans join in creating a massive food-aid program for underdeveloped countries, which would increase world demand for U.S. wheat. For its part, the Common Market demanded that the U.S. get rid of its 1922 law that bases...