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...more wheat from the U.S. As for his threat to welsh on debt payments, most of his debtors considered it a desperate act of bravado, designed to let his creditors know that he cannot pay them all off -and that he will give first priority to those who bother him least about the delay. The plain fact is that Nasser could not pay even if he wanted to. His country is nearly bankrupt, and he hopes to distract his people from that looming fact by blaming Egypt's troubles on others...
...system thus cannot really assure adequate protection, why should the Russians bother to deploy one? One possible answer is that their definition of "adequate" may be flexible. Conceivably, Russian strategists may argue that even if an ABM system could not keep out all U.S. missiles, it could keep out enough to give the nation a fighting chance to survive and rebuild. The other and more unsettling possibility is that Russian scientists are on to a better defense system than the U.S. so far contemplates. U.S. military planners remain haunted by the frightening possibility that the Russians have actually developed...
...concede, one can also live as a Christian by "the old, laborious, tried-and-true method of being kind to your neighbor, working like a dog, tithing, witnessing, living peaceably with all men." But, they conclude, "if you can play the games right, you won't have to bother with all that...
...long career, the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen was best known as a maker of famous converts and a magnetic television preacher. He never had to bother with pastoral duties. Inevitably, after Pope Paul VI named him Bishop of Rochester, N.Y., last November, the question arose: How would the celebrated Catholic evangelist perform as head of a modest diocese? "Spectacularly well" seems to be the answer...
Many of Dr. Laing's discharged patients may still seem a bit queer by society's standards, but that does not bother him as long as they can live with others and live with themselves...