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...Peking of deliberately delaying Soviet technicians en route to Hanoi to help the North Vietnamese war effort. Finally, if reports from Eastern European diplomats were to be believed, Russia began moving out of the line in Eastern Europe some 50,000 troops, transporting them by train across Poland to bolster Soviet defenses along the Chinese frontier...
Despite misfortunes Chapin managed to sound optimistic. A.M.C. has not only pared costs by $27 million a year but has restocked executive ranks. More product changes are under way, and there are plans to put the Rambler into racing-to bolster its sporty image. "There is no time to spare," said Chapin, "but we believe there is time enough...
...establish a respectable posture of opposition, an alternative to the shrill dissent of the left wing, a course of moderation which may yet attract many of their elders and dissuade the President from upping the ante. It is a desperate effort. But it might work. It could still bolster the doves within the Administration. It just might convince the President that Americans will stand behind him in efforts to negotiate or at least limit the conflict. The President--caught in a tightening vise between those who want more fighting and those who want less--wants...
...been bright spots; and he reeled off a Johnsonian catalogue of positive statistics to prove it: unemployment at the lowest rate in 13 years, after-tax family income up nearly 5% over last year, corporate profits up more than 5%, G.N.P. up 51%, farm income up 6%. To bolster his request for a tax rise, he dispensed some revealing budget figures. Federal expenditures for fiscal 1967 (which ends June 30) will reach $126.7 billion, nearly $10 billion more than expected revenues; spending in fiscal 1968 will rise to $135 billion, causing a deficit of some $8 billion...
...emergency meeting in Cairo, the Arab League's Defense Council once again demanded that Hussein bolster his border defenses with troops from neighboring Arab countries; and once again, the little King refused, realizing that such troops would be a potential fifth column that could bring down his throne. That was small consolation to the angry, anxious Palestinian refugees who live close to the frontier with Israel. They demand protection from Israeli attack, and they do not care who supplies it. If the King will not, many of them are in a mood to turn to another ruler who will...