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...Belgian swindler, Charles Sigal, and his wife Yvonne. Using the name of a fictitious firm for a cover, the four had chartered the plane from a London air-taxi company. They were real estate developers, they explained, and wanted to examine some sites in the Mediterranean on which to build new hotels...
...Westmoreland were to be given the 600,000 troops he wants, some Congressmen and Administration officials have begun to doubt whether they would be sufficient to achieve U.S. aims in Viet Nam. Those aims are to provide security for the people of South Viet Nam as they try to build a nation, and to try to bring enough pressure and pain to bear on the Communists to force them to come to the negotiating table-or quietly de-escalate the war. All of these aims require a continuing U.S. momentum of success on the battlefields, and of late that momentum...
...people. Most Arabs from Aden to Algeria are poor, sick, uneducated, and desperately in need of survival training for the 20th century. The vision of a once great civilization moving into the modern world should be a cause to fire the Arab mind and spirit, a unifying challenge to build national pride and progress. Yet for two decades, Arab leaders have been more interested in mounting suicidal wars against Israel. If the Arabs truly weighed their own self-interest after their latest, disastrous defeat, they would face facts-or so a Westerner would reason-accept Israel's extended hand...
Rich with insights into the clowns' techniques, Films will undoubtedly add new dimensions to the L. & H. legend -a prospect that Everson contemplates with regret. "Overadulation," he warns, "can often build up a wall of resentment against its objects, who are usually wholly innocent of any involvement in a cult movement, often dislike it, and usually refuse to take it seriously." When he heard about the formation of the Sons of the Desert shortly before his death, Laurel suggested that the club should maintain only a halfway dignity, and that "everybody have a hell...
Last week there were two distinct rebuffs from Paris. The first involved British, French and West German plans to build the subsonic, short-range Airbus, which would carry 250 passengers and go into service by 1972. By agreement of the three governments, Britain was to build the craft's engine. Trouble is, the envisioned Rolls-Royce model is still on the drawing boards, while the U.S.'s Pratt & Whitney already has a suitable engine in the test stage. So France's largest manufacturer of aircraft engines, SNECMA, announced that it would exercise its option to build...