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Coupled with the President's public expression of concern was a blunt, private warning delivered to United Arab Republic officials in Cairo that the U.S. considered the blockade "an act of aggression" and would consider using force to reassert what Johnson called "the right of free, innocent passage" for all ships. Britain strongly hinted that it would do the same...
...blunt Nasser's thrust, King Hussein of Jordan went to Teheran last week for talks with the Shah of Iran. This week King Feisal, the leader of the more moderate Arab regimes, goes to London to make a plea for more arms aid. "We are obliged, however reluctantly, to defend ourselves," says Feisal, whose country is also infiltrated with pro-Nasser terrorists and has been bombed by Egyptian planes. The British are helping Feisal strengthen his army and build an air defense system. In London, he is expected to ask the British to refrain for the moment from giving...
Seeking to blunt Republican criticism, the Administration weighed in last week with recommendations for some major changes in the basic antipoverty law. Among them: Screening of Job Corps applicants will be tightened to keep out the troublemakers who have plagued some of the 120 communities with corps centers; mayors and businessmen will be assured by law of representation on local antipoverty boards, assuaging local fears that boards controlled by the poor might get out of hand; poverty workers will be barred from using federal funds for "illegal picketing or demonstrations" or other partisan politicking...
Only a few years ago, such a blunt statement would have sent many Latin Americans into bursts of outrage about Yanqui callousness-and Ecuador's interim President, Otto Arosemena Gómez, 41, indeed complained that the U.S. did not offer enough aid. But for the rest of the Latin Americans, who vainly tried to shush Arosemena, Johnson's words hit home. After receiving $9.9 billion in Alliance aid during the past six years, the Latin Americans are beginning to realize that aid alone will not make their problems go away. They are also experiencing a new surge...
Died. Luis Somoza, 44, President of Nicaragua from 1957 to 1963, elder of Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza's two sons, who with his brother "Tachito" continued the more or less benevolent dictatorship established by their father in 1937, espousing a policy of diligent economic progress coupled with blunt anti-Communism in foreign affairs; after a heart attack; in Managua...