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...Eisenhower Administration encouraged Diem to cancel the '56 election, in the belief that a democratic election would bring communists to power throughout Vietnam, and so end democracy there once and for all. It was a curious preview of later Administration reasoning: cancelling elections to protect democracy smacks of destroying villages in order to save them. But the confusion was inevitable, given that the preservation of political democracy and the suppression of economic democracy was a basic aim of American foreign policy. Political democracy without economic democracy was impossible in Vietnam. The communist peasants out-numbered the liberal middle-class...
...beyond that limit when bad weather, mechanical breakdowns or other problems made it necessary. Miffed, American's pilots began a "rulebook slowdown," taking their sweet time for routine equipment checkouts and throttling back on flights to arrive late. During the slowdown from December to April, American had to cancel 1,300 flights; connections were missed, baggage lost, tempers frayed-and many longtime American customers took their business elsewhere. The company finally won its bargaining point on the hours, but at a frightening loss in passenger loyalty...
...time to register an entire spectrum of response to the Watergate scandal, ranging from moral indignation and self-righteousness to sympathy and support for the President. Some called for the rescinding of honorary degrees and speaking invitations to Nixon Administration officials. For example, Attorney General Elliot Richardson decided to cancel a commencement address at Georgetown University when threatened with a massive boycott...
...Harvard Crimson issue of Monday, June 4, the headline on Page One pertaining to the "Doonesbury" cartoon reads, "Globe, Pose Cancel 'Doonesbury' Strip...
...Penny Tweedy has a breeding theory based on the belief that every horse, male or female, has some defects; the trick is to cross bloodlines so that the dam's virtues cancel out the sire's flaws and vice versa. According to this theory, she had the ideal mate for Bold Ruler-a mare called Somethingroyal, daughter of a very different kind of sire named Princequillo...