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...Djakarta, his first ambassadorial assignment, he replaces genial Howard P. Jones, whose seven years of effort to win over Sukarno with tolerant understanding did not deter the Bung from continuing to heap contempt and ridicule on the U.S. Whether a blunter approach will bear fruit is anyone's guess. The U.S. sympathizes with Malaysia, but would like to cling to some friendly ties with Indonesia, however tenuous. Sukarno may be angry at the latest U.S. loan to Malaysia for military equipment, but the Malaysians of late have been equally miffed by the proposed sale of $4,000,000 worth...
...Even blunter was defeated Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate Charles Percy, who called for "a progressive party in the tradition of Lincoln" and said: "We have got to get this party away from being an Anglo-Saxon Protestant white party." Echoed House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan: "Unfortunately, we have not been able to sell the people on the fact that our solutions are better for the people as a whole and in conformity with the framework of America's basic principles...
...Backward" is a word no longer used in polite Western circles to describe the underdeveloped nations of the world. Yet this is precisely the word that I. R. Sinai uses, plus some even blunter ones, in an angrily eloquent book on the problems and prospects of the new nations. "The international atmosphere," writes Sinai, "is absolutely clogged with slogans, speeches and books extolling the 'Great Revolution' that has supposedly been brought about in all these populous territories. What we are witnessing in reality is a colorful masquerade, a sort of superior political orgy, superficially exciting but essentially undermining...
Goldwater is not, in fact, a fascist. He only presents a blunter, rougher version of what Johnson has been saying all along. Big Business knows, however, that Johnson's velvet glove has been more effective than Goldwater's iron hand in suppressing popular struggles. This is why businessmen are this year flocking in unprecedented numbers to the Democratic Party...
...Beatitude's Head. What the Turks fear is precisely what Greece threatens: to rip Cyprus from the troubled treaty that gives the 18% Turkish minority a veto over the majority Greek Cypriots and set it on the path toward enosis, or merger with Greece. No one is a blunter advocate of this course than wizened, fierce-mustached George Grivas, 66, the ascetic little soldier (5 ft. 4 in.) who led Cyprus' EOKA revolt against Britain in 1959 and spent five years in Greek exile. Dissatisfied with the policies of Makarios, whom he considers dishonest, not very clever...