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...Sharon, Israel's hero of the October war, to be his personal adviser. The move guaranteed increased support for Rabin from right-wing Israelis who adore the superhawk Sharon and who have long worried that the Premier is a waffling dove. The general's charisma will also blunt the appeal of Rabin critics like former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Since Sharon becomes a civil servant who by law cannot openly criticize the government, Rabin has also neatly stilled the voice of a maverick politician who once called him both "naive" and "childish" for indicating willingness to trade...
...ready in time. Last week, while the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, received assurances from Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau that the games would be held on schedule, construction workers in Quebec and at the Olympic construction site struck yet again, this time mainly to protest a blunt, 603-page report on corruption and crime in four Quebec Federation of Labor unions. The Quebec government had already voted to replace tainted leaders with government-appointed trustees...
...Nhut airport is reopened to international flights. More surprising, Bangkok announced that it was establishing full diplomatic relations with North Korea. When South Korea protested and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos sent a special envoy urging Thailand to "rethink its move," Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhavan had a blunt reply: "We have already rethought it." Thailand also announced that it would enter into a cultural and technological agreement with the Soviet Union...
Under the Diem regime, Minh gained renown as a brave "soldier's soldier" in the campaign he led in the 1950s against the notorious Binh Xuyen bandits, a kind of Vietnamese Cosa Nostra (also known as the "whorehouse gang") that pillaged the countryside and controlled vice in Saigon. Blunt, athletic and honest, he was given the sobriquet "Big" by U.S. military advisers because he was unusually large for a Vietnamese-nearly 6 ft. tall and 200 Ibs. Minh impressed Diem and in 1958 was appointed the first boss of a field-operations command that coordinated the mounting war against...
...Frank, a savvy, voluble liberal Democratic State Representative, and Mark Shields, a former campaign adviser to Robert Kennedy and Edmund Muskie, the group plans to see to it that the Massachusetts primary is held the same day as New Hampshire's. The effect, of course, would be to blunt New Hampshire's political impact and to grab part of the first-in-the-nation hoopla...