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...Berkeley's 27,000 students returned from a long Christmas recess last week, administrators, a few faculty members, and student government leaders worked furiously to complete a package of reforms that will, they think, avert any future violence on the campus...
...communiqué (see box), and in fact the whole conference, was a minor triumph for the U.S. policy of the middle way in Viet Nam. "We set out with modest objectives," said a member of the U.S. delegation, "and I think we achieved them." The principal achievement was to avert a schism between the hard-lining nations on Asia's mainland, South Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam ("The ones in sight of the gallows," as one U.S. aide puts it), and the safer, softer-lining insular nations, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines...
...Kuala Lumpur, the reception was likely to be notably less restrained. On the eve of Johnson's arrival, a handful of University of Malaya students demonstrated against the Viet Nam war despite the government's attempts to avert such protests by arresting some 60 left-wing opposition leaders. Still, with two dozen welcoming committees at work on his 24-hour visit, it was likely to be a memorable one. No demonstrations were expected in Seoul, however, and Park anticipated crowds of 2,000,000 to greet the President-double the number that happily mobbed Dwight Eisenhower...
...tied up in risky long-term investments, depriving the bank of needed cash. Predictably, Intra's closing started a run that threatened to bankrupt other Beirut banks. At a twelve-hour emergency night session, the Lebanese Cabinet ordered a three-day bank holiday to stall for time. To avert another kind of panic, Beirut's stock exchange also closed. So did department stores and shops, bringing business in the city close to a standstill. Finally, the government pledged its $200 million reserves (mostly in gold) to bail out all the banks but Intra, which it feared might involve...
...year and a half after the U.S. began bombing the North and pouring troops into the South to avert an imminent Communist victory, the war is undeniably going well for the allies. Yet there is little prospect that it can be won easily or soon. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. who shares Charles de Gaulle's distaste for the U.S. presence in Viet Nam, told Johnson during a 90-minute talk at the White House last week that Hanoi, for its part, no longer believes it can achieve a military victory in the South, but is convinced...