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...fellow countrymen, we have been entirely wrong in Vietnam. We must withdraw our troops from Vietnam and from the other nations of the world where our presence is obstructing progress, and concentrate our attention on the problems of our own country and the vast natural difficulties that afflict the world...
That is the fear of a confrontation with Communist China. It troubles President Johnson, who talks in terms of mortal peril about coming to grips "with 700 million Chinese." It came to afflict even General Douglas Mac Arthur, the old hero of Inchon and champion of crossing the Yalu, who in his declining years warned Johnson never to get involved in a war on the mainland of Asia...
...prisoner-volunteers at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, and into cooperating patients with advanced cancer, at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. But a nagging question remained: Is this lack of immunity peculiar to the cancer patient; is it a result of his particular disease, or does a similar problem afflict debilitated patients suffering from unrelated diseases...
...presidential palace one day last week, a new government was sworn into office while sev eral dozen military officers looked on approvingly. On the floor above, locked in his quarters was the Dominican Republic's elected President, Juan Bosch, 54. Thus, in another of the military coups that afflict Latin America, ended the small Caribbean country's first experiment with democracy in 38 years...
Nose to Tip. Such jitters apparently never afflict Toralf Engan, 26, a brown-haired, slightly built sporting-goods salesman from Trondheim. Norway. Engan has been skiing since he was three, jumping since he was seven, and outjumping almost everyone for nearly a decade. "When I jump." he says. "I feel like a bird. Birds aren't afraid to fly. Why should...