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Wilson's most important assurance was a pledge to Johnson that Britain would not add to the U.S. military burden in Southeast Asia by dismantling any of its own major bases east of Suez. Johnson, in turn, promised to support Britain's embargo on oil shipments to Rhodesia by offering U.S. aircraft to fly oil into landlocked Zambia during the crisis. Prime Minister Wilson was so cheered by his rapport with the President that he confided after the talks: "We are as close together as Churchill and Roosevelt ever were...
...struggle to preserve South Viet Nam's independence with their own efforts to preserve colonial rule. There are some heartening exceptions. On a quick working trip to Washington last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson promised that his government would not add to the U.S. burden by cutting back its military commitments in Asia-and, looking a little like a Yorkshire Santa himself, went out with Lyndon Johnson to light the Christmas tree on the White House lawn. West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, who was to arrive this week for politician-to-politician talks with...
Newspeak. Week in, week out, the burden that weighs most heavily is, of course, the war in Viet Nam. In three statements during the week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk bluntly and brilliantly reaffirmed the U.S. position (see Box), while the President emphasized that he had no moral alternative to the war unless the Communists would give...
...Trouble." Last week the Justices all but begged for mercy during the oral arguments in three obscenity cases involving no fewer than 144 publications. How could the court rule without reading all of them? "If the final burden is on this court," groaned Chief Justice Earl Warren, who dissented in Jacobellis, "then it looks to me as though we're in trouble." ^ In the first case, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg appealed a five-year federal sentence for putting the now defunct magazine Eros in the mails, along with a "newsletter" called Liaison and a socalled psychological study titled The Housewife...
Qualified faculty members are often reluctant to shoulder the burden of entertaining, counseling and administration which masterships entail. Men like Hersey, who can summon the power of the artist, reporter, and statesman into the kingdom of the teacher might pump a little new life into the House system. We hope that the University will consider appointing such men, perhaps on a one-year basis, when masterships open in the coming year. The idea is worthy of experiment...