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...when Chiang was kidnaped by a group of Nationalist officers who wanted to stop the anti-Communist campaign and unite against the Japanese invaders, he refused to bow. "If you want to shoot me," he said, "do so at once." He was finally released at the behest of a young Communist, Chou Enlai...
...Even such "domestic" carriers as American, Braniff and Eastern have international routes to the Caribbean, Canada or Latin America. Under Pan Am's founder, Juan Trippe, now honorary board chairman, the airline took on unprofitable routes in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe at least partly at the behest of the State Department. On its New York-to-Moscow run, for example, Pan Am has been losing money since service was initiated in 1968. Some of its prime routes have been invaded by tough competitors. American, Braniff, Continental, Western, Northwest, United and TWA have joined the battle for mainland...
...There were a number of economies the department had to make at the behest of the Dean's Office," according to Baaron Pittenger, Jr., associate director of Athletics. In restricting expenditures, he said, the Athletic Department tried to protect both varsity and intramural sports...
...from the global empire of Harold S. Geneen, chairman and president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., gather in his Manhattan headquarters for one of the best-known staff meetings in the business world. In the near future, however, there could be a significant drop-off in attendance. At the behest of the Justice Department, ITT has agreed to divest itself of six important companies...
...well founded. It seemed most unlikely that Bergus, 51, who has spent more than 25 years on Middle East matters and served ably since 1967 in his present sensitive post, would have ignored Rogers' directive. A possible explanation is that Bergus was sending up trial balloons at the behest of the State Department. That seems especially likely in view of the fact that the U.S. is tinkering with a proposal-oral -much like Bergus' for solving the Suez impasse. It calls for Israel to pull back about 35 miles in Sinai, for Egyptian civilians and a token military...