Word: backdowns
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...certainly acting like a man who knows where the choice lies. Last week, after an intricate and mystery-shrouded confrontation that would do honor to Machiavelli, Johnson forced the $2.9 billion aluminum industry to bow to Government pressure and retreat from a price increase. It was the first such backdown since the steel industry's retreat before John Kennedy's wrath in 1962, and it marked the beginning of a new phase in Johnson's relations with U.S. business...
Peking's stern ultimatum to India, which once sounded like the voice of certain war, was resolved in a squeaky backdown. Peking announced that the Indians had dismantled 56 outposts on Chinese territory, thus precluding the possibility of a three-cornered war. But Peking kept up the threat of future trouble by demanding the immediate return of "two kidnaped Tibetans, 800 sheep and 59 yaks." India, of course, denied everything from dismantling to yaknaping. And in New Delhi, a mob promptly marched on the Chinese Embassy, leading a herd of sheep bearing placards that read: "Eat me, but save...
...Johnson's departure, accusing him of having backed down in the U.S. fight to force Russia and other delinquent nations to ante up their assessments for U.N. peace-keeping operations. Everett Dirksen charged that the Administration's earlier vow had been "exposed as a bluff"; the backdown, he said, was a "staggering blow to the structure of the United Nations...
...logic behind the Government's backdown was clear enough: federal attorneys did not want to reveal anymore of their painstakingly gathered evidence at the hearings because it would only help defense attorneys plan their strategy for the trial. Thus, while Government lawyers agreed to let the charges be dropped against all 21 men. they just as quickly announced that they would ask that a federal grand jury be convened "as soon as possible" to hear all of the evidence against the accused-in secret sessions without defense attorneys listening...
...exchange of notes published, thereby making a 'public issue of the impending showdown. If Makarios had said nothing, the Turkish troops could have been quietly rotated without public outcry. But now Turkey's Premier Ismet Inonii was faced with the alternative of a public and humiliating backdown, which would almost certainly topple his government, or of making a landing in force on a hostile shore...