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...view of critics, Johnson was being much too dear. To them the cherubic looking Thornberry, with his wavy white hair, his twinkling blue eyes a his backslapping "How-yew-all? manner, would be better cast as a rural justice of the peace than as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. But the court often has a way of bringing out the most in a man, and Homer's odyssey could well end in triumph...
...everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout me, 'bout us, 'bout we") and pronouncin' just about ev-erythin' on the fust syllable: Ree-pub-lican, convention, Yew-nited States, till you'd like to die gagging at some of the laffs...
...only controls entry to the Red Sea but is an ideal base from which to expand influence into the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. The Soviets may also be able to use the facilities of the big British naval base at Singapore, which Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has said he will rent to all comers after the Royal Navy pulls out in 1971. The big question in the Mediterranean is whether the Russians will move into the Algerian naval base at Mers-el-Kebir, which the French evacuated last month; it is only 315 miles east...
...South Viet Nam, the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia keenly feel each tug and convulsion of the Vietnamese war. Increasingly, many of them consider their future to be linked directly to the war. "The eventual fate of South and Southeast Asia," Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last week, "depends more and more on the decisions of America, China and Russia than on the decisions of the nations of the area." Even as Lee spoke, new troubles plagued Viet Nam's neighbors-and prompted their leaders to speak out in warning. >In Laos, the major staging...
...want," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "is sufficient time to develop my own muscles." At week's end Lee flew off to Britain to seek a reprieve. His trump card: 400 million pounds sterling in his own and Malaysian reserves, which could cause great damage to the pound's value if exchanged for yen or other currencies. Whatever happens, Singapore seems destined to move even closer to Japan, whose businessmen already hold one-quarter of Singapore's industries and were conveniently in conference there last week...