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...claim seriously until General Abdul Karim Kassem, "sole leader" of Iraq, announced during the course of a three-hour tirade that he was bent upon "liberating" Ku wait and returning it to the Iraqi "homeland." Upon hearing the news, Britain prudently dispatched two frigates and the aircraft carrier Bulwark to Kuwait, un loaded Centurion tanks and 600 marine commandos...
...nation* conference at Geneva this month determined not only to put Prince Souvanna Phouma in power, but to pillory the U.S. for its intervention in Laos. Washington is in the unhappy position of having misfired with two opposite policies. The Eisenhower Administration tried to make primitive Laos "a bulwark against Communism' and failed, in part because of the reluctance of the Royal Laotian Army to fight. The Kennedy Administration announced that it would be satisfied with a neutral Laos, unaligned with either bloc. But in letting its eagerness for a cease-fire show too plainly, the U.S. undermined what...
...think the U.S. has forgotten. "Man has free will and reason," says Victor Milione, 36, executive vice president of the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. "Individual men should be their own agents in all things respecting their own lives." These conservatives hold the right of private property as the best bulwark of freedom. They argue that unemployment should be alleviated by charity; that children should obey the Biblical command to honor parents by caring for them in their old age instead of leaving the responsibility to the Social Security Administration...
...November 1959, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson had formulated his concern over the nation's balance-of-payments deficit (then, as now, running at $3 billion a year). But the danger was not fully realized until nearly a year later. By that time, the stern action needed to bulwark the gold reserve could have made the recession worse and crippled Dick Nixon's chance for the presidency...
Signals of the turn inside Trujillo's supertight Caribbean island nation are clear. After years of posing as Latin America's strongest anti-Communist bulwark, the dictator has started cozying up to Castro and the Soviet bloc. Six months ago Trujillo's Radio Caribe propaganda outlet adopted a Marxist, anti-U.S. cant in its commentary. Last August the dictator sent emissaries to Europe and began the first of a series of secret meetings with Iron Curtain leaders; rumors are buzzing in Ciudad Trujillo that diplomatic relations will soon be established with Poland and Russia...