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...explodin', Violence flarin', and bullets loadin'. You're old enough to kill, but not for votin' . . . If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away. There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave . . . Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction...
...Johnson's jokes more uproariously, or more often, than Lyndon Johnson. Of late, other citizens of the Great Society have minted a whole new genre of L.B.J. stories-at L.B.J.'s expense. Some are moderately sympathetic, such as the yuk that has one Texan saying to another: "Ah think ouh President is absolutely fahn. He's the first President we evah had who doesn't have an accent." Some are moderately malicious. Vice President Humphrey greets the President: "Morning, Lyndon, how are you?" To which Lyndon replies: "Is that all you ever think of, Hubert?" Mostly...
...Despite the new fighting in Kashmir, Prime Minister Shastri was determined to eradicate the causes of the old fighting in the barren Rann of Kutch where Indians and Pakistanis had clashed last spring. But he canceled the scheduled visit of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto to discuss the Rann of Kutch because "no useful purpose" would be served...
...Colonel Houari Boumedi enne's first acts after he seized power in June was to denounce the schemes for Pan-African subversion, which had been so dear to his predecessor, Ah med Ben Bella - and which had proved so costly to Algeria. The gaunt new Premier has ended the fat subsidies handed out to the 22 foreign revolutionary movements based in Algiers, ordered exiles to stop their political activities or leave the country. As if to prove his good intentions last week, the government newspaper El Moudja-hid published long front-page tributes to Upper Volta and the Ivory...
...made it over to sample the barbecue spread set out by the President's favorite outdoor cook, Walter Jetton, who rustled up a pretty flamboyant feed of briskets from 200 head of cattle, 600 Ibs. of spareribs, and other Texas refreshments, including 55 gallons of six-shooter coffee. "Ah," grinned one Texan, with typical understatement: "It's so strong it will float...