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With a cease-fire currently under consideration in honor of the May 23 birthday of Buddha, Westmoreland confessed that he is averse to such pauses because Hanoi has consistently exploited them to accelerate its "resupply and infiltration activity." To defeat this enemy, said Westmoreland deliberately, "the only strategy is one of unrelenting -but discriminating-military, political and psychological pressure on his whole structure, and at all levels." Westmoreland has applied this strategy of unrelenting pressure to the allies' own performance as well, and the results have been dramatic...
...celebrate the British North America Act of 1867, which united four colonies into the nucleus of modern Canada, the whole nation is caught up in a yearlong birthday party, whose centerpiece is Expo 67, the admirable international exhibition that opened in Montreal last week (see MODERN LIVING). Expo's space-age shapes will once and for all blot out the world's clichés about Canada: Mounties bracing blizzards, Eskimos crouched over a kodlik swapping wives, bluff Quebeckers doffing berets to passing priests. Expo 67 spectacularly dramatizes Canada's achievements. If there remains an undercurrent...
...public schools. Though its two conservative Republican senators-Carl Curtis and Roman Hruska-have given the state an image of doughty self-reliance, it is not reluctant to accept federal handouts: in 1965 only five other states received more federal funds per capita. As it began its 100th-birthday celebration this year, Nebraska was the very paradigm of uncreative federalism...
...instead of counseling him to stay above the battle. Whenever the King's shiny Rolls-Royce is seen outside his mother's villa, the press almost invariably reports it as cloak-and-dagger news. Last week, just before the coup, King Constantine and his wife celebrated Frederika's 50th birthday at a private lunch at the villa, where she lives with Princess Irene, 24. Her other daughter, Sophia, is married to Juan Carlos, son of the pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Juan...
Haiti probably has less to celebrate than any other country on earth. Yet last week, in a four-day binge that it could ill afford, it celebrated the 60th birthday and tenth anniversary in power of the man who has made the country the mess it is: Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's official President-for-Life and Renovator of the Nation. The task of working up a suitable celebration fell to Director General of Tourism Luc Albert Foucard, who was appointed to his job shortly after he married Duvalier's daughter Nicole last December. To prove himself...