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Clearly, also, the grids need fail-safe mechanisms to ensure against massive, crippling interruptions of power. Texas' Representative Rogers, for one, envisions "a three-way buffer," consisting of a secondary system to take over if the primary power supply fails, and yet a third backup system in the unlikely event that the secondary supply fails...
Trust Your Commanders. When the military rose up against Leftist Joao Goulart last year, it was Costa e Silva who was responsible for putting Castello Branco in the presidential palace. Since then, he has been a buffer between the soft-lining President and the linha dura (hardline) officers, who want ironhanded "revolutionary government." Last month, after anti-government candidates won gubernatorial elections in the key states of Minas Gerais and Guanabara, Rio's powerful First Army was on the verge of revolt-until Costa e Silva stepped in. "You must trust your commanders," he told the officers. "They...
...cigarette lighter?" Of course it is, but that shows how much she knows about him - or Ronson. He's going to slice the roast with his Ronson Carve 'n' Slice electric knife, just as he shaves with a Ronson shaver, shines shoes on a Ronson electric buffer, and brushes his teeth with a Ronson electric toothbrush...
...that Ho should be left alone to reunify Viet Nam, since he would doubtless emerge as the Tito of Southeast Asia and hence become a man who could be dealt with reasonably by the West. This is wishful thinking. Ho does not have the 1,100 miles of buffer zone separating him from Red China that Tito had from Russia; nor has Peking's attitude toward North Viet Nam relaxed as Moscow's did toward Yugoslavia before the 1948 break. And when Tito broke clear, he had a unified nation under him, plus all of Western Europe...
...high-level committee of Pentagon, State Department and CIA men that met every morning for weeks in his Situation Room to ride herd on day-by-day developments in Santo Domingo. It was Bundy who came up with the idea of establishing a U.S. "line of communication" as a buffer between rebel and junta forces in the city...