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...York does mean he does not understand its problems. Today the entire Northeastern seabord shares the same crises--urban blight, overcongestion, rising crime rates, and a lack of adequate transportation. The problems of Boston and Washington differ only in size and complexity not in kind. New York, never a bastion of provincialism, should welcome the best talent available, and Robert Kennedy in his role of a proponent for a mass transportation bill and for new approaches to the attack on poverty showed a fundamental understanding a megalopolis. Homegrown mediocrity is not substitute for imported excellence...
...face on the posters, the voters gave Willy Brandt's rival Social Democrats an overall gain of nearly 5%. In West Germany's populous industrial Rhine River heartland, the Socialists won absolute majorities in 24 of the 38 major cities-including Konrad Adenauer's traditionally safe bastion of Cologne...
Orientally polite, India, Pakistan and Ceylon studied their fingernails, and said no thanks. Thailand, home of the River Kwai, and Malaysia, which remembers the ignominious defeat of Britain's bastion at Singapore, explained they needed engineers, not volunteers. Indonesia snarled at Ikeda's men as "cat's-paws of American imperialism," and in the Philippines the Japanese were actually pelted with stones. His good works nipped in the bud, Ikeda last week resignedly admitted he was "postponing indefinitely" any further discussion of a Japanese peace corps...
...provide a colorful guard for the governor, train Gibraltar's draftees, and keep ready to support the island's civil authorities in any emergency that might arise. The limestone Rock is a rabbit warren of caverns linked by 25 miles of deep-hewn tunnels. Unsinkable, indestructible, the bastion has not once fallen to its foes in the score of sieges and blockades it has undergone since the Union Jack was first hoisted over the straits...
Britain's last, vital bastion in the Middle East, Aden is the cornerstone on which Whitehall aims to build a stable Federation of South Arabia from more than a dozen disparate sultanates, sheikdoms and emirates along the nether rim of the Arabian peninsula. With easy access to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, Aden is also the major staging post and bunkering station in the area and a key base for the defense of sources that supply Britain with an annual half-billion dollars worth of oil. Not surprisingly, Egypt's President Nasser would also like to "liberate...