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Speeding through Ankara just after sunup one morning last week, police squads knocked on door after door. To the men who answered-all key armed forces officers and members of the National Unity Committee that has been running Turkey since the May 27 revolution-the police presented documents, with blunt instructions to sign them immediately. As they complied, the officers found themselves simultaneously resigning from the Unity Committee and retiring from the army. Thus neatly did Turkey's boss, laconic General Cemal Gursel, purge the 14 men who had been opposing his plans to restore democracy to Turkey...
...Force Materiel Chief Lieut. General Mark E. Bradley Jr. last week gave a blunt warning to Air Force contractors: "There's too much gold plating and fanciness. I intend to raise hell as long as I am here until I get some action." The action he wanted was to eliminate waste and overcharging in Air Force procurement. Bradley said that $100 million has already been trimmed out of the revived B70 program "by cutting out fancy items that were put in there to do the job just a little better. You can do the same job, perhaps a little...
Despite the fact that the majority of the crowds enjoyed Nixon's blunt attacks, newsmen noted a tenseness in the Vice President, apparently brought on by a combination of fatigue, a cold, and by his awareness of the Kennedy surge. One day he could launch a nearly violent assault on Kennedy; the next day he could be relatively passive. At times, he could touch his listeners with a recital of some poorboy family anecdote (sample: a brother who died without the pony he'd always wanted, because his father had to meet the grocery bills). At other times...
...Blunt Saying. On a motion of censure against the government, the opposition piled up an impressive 207 votes, only 70 short of the number needed to defeat the bill and overturn the government. But the opposition was stronger in numbers than in cohesion: the 207 votes came from a coalition stretching from far right to far left, from men who, on most issues, hate each other more intensely than they dislike De Gaulle. It represented, nevertheless, the most defiant gesture by Parliament since De Gaulle took power...
...enemies, had roughed up their quarry, had in some instances proved trigger-happy. Already angered by Mobutu's threat to bring an armored unit into Léopoldville to impose his will, Dayal called the bespectacled colonel on the carpet before an array of U.N. brass, issued a blunt warning that the army's illegal and arbitrary acts would no longer be tolerated...