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...Operation Harvest Moon's" plan was simple enough. Vietnamese troops were to move deep into Quang Tin as bait. When the Viet Cong struck, waiting U.S. Marine units at Danang, Chu Lai and aboard the aircraft carrier two Juma would helilift in to the rescue, surround, and hopefully wipe out the Viet Cong attackers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Trap of the Harvest Moon | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...months Castroites and Communists had been lying low. Then two weeks ago, they formed a "United Anti-Imperialist Front" and launched a series of violent public demonstrations and marches. Twice in seven days, leftist students set a U.S. flag ablaze in front of the National Palace, trying to bait OAS troops into an incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Comedy & Public Violence | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...Offering Bait. First off, the five partners-West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-agreed substantially on a complicated method of financing agricultural subsidies inside the Common Market, the problem that led to the French walkout. They also dropped some proposals that De Gaulle opposes, such as one to give more power over farm-subsidy money to a Europe-wide Parliament and to the EEC executive commission. As bait for the French, the five offered to hold one ministerial meeting without the commission's Eurocrats, whom De Gaulle dislikes because their supranational leanings conflict with his dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Standing Up to De Gaulle | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...that he lured Rasputin to his palace by "pandering" his beautiful young wife to the Siberian mystic. The still-striking Princess Irina Youssoupoff took the stand to state that she had never known nor ever seen Rasputin. And in angry French, denying that he used his wife as "seductive bait," the prince cried, "Jamais...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Privacy: The Prince & the Monk | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...most strident voices in Method ism's internal debate have lately been those of the ecumenists. During a June conference of church leaders at Lake Junaluska, N.C., Theologian Albert C. Outler, an observer at the Vatican Council, argued that it was time for Methodism to "fish or cut bait." If the church was really not interested in following through with the Blake proposal, he asked, "would it be wiser to withdraw now rather than later?" In the current issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Methodist Church Historian Franklin Littell complains that his church's leaders have approached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Methodists: Join, Consolidate, or Drift? | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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