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...Seoul the final communique last week expressed "sympathy" with South Viet Nam's plight, affirmed the nation's right to freedom "from external aggression and subversion," and "noted with satisfaction" the aid being given by other nations to help Saigon's war effort. But at the behest of the Japanese delegates it did not go so far as to overtly condemn Red China or pledge joint aid to South Viet...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth is certainly getting gear. Last year, at the behest of the swinging Labor government, she put the Beatles on her birthday list as Members of the Order of the British Empire, an honor the shaggies won for all the cash that their noise had contributed to the empire's balance of payments. This time, for rather the same reason, Her Majesty named fab Fashion Designer Mary Quant, 32, doyenne of the Chelsea group's knee-baring, hippy styles, as an officer of the O.B.E. Her fad is siphoning so much loot into Albion...
...Order. The disenchantment with the militant Buddhists stemmed in part from their insatiable and constantly changing demands. The Ky government first agreed to constitutional general elections, now set for Sept. 11, at the behest of the Buddhists. Having got that, the militants then demanded last week that the ten-general Directory, now at best an interim government, be expanded by the addition of ten civilians. When Ky also agreed to that, the political monks further insisted that the enlarged council have the right to elect a new Chief of State and Premier-meaning that Thieu and Ky would have...
First, at Wilson's behest, Queen Elizabeth signed a proclamation declaring a national state of emergency, under laws invoked only five times in the past 50 years.* The proclamation enables the government to impose price controls and to clear congested ports-presumably by using Royal Navy tugs and crews-and allow foreign ships, which are unaffected by the striking National Union of Seamen, to dock and unload essential food, raw materials and medical supplies. Well aware that the use of the Royal Navy could provoke sympathy strikes by dockers and truckers handling imported goods, Wilson's government later...
...third-party movement and loudly boomed his weekly antiwar message across the country from Detroit's Station WJR. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Father Charles Coughlin, 74, silenced by Edward Cardinal Mooney in 1940 at F.D.R.'s behest, held a press conference at his rectory in Royal Oak, Mich., and allowed: "I understand more about charity than I did 40 years ago. Who am I to throw stones? Now it is to me simply: my President, right or wrong...