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...predecessor. He has been bluntly asked on TV whether he is smart enough to be President, a rude question that would not have been asked of most of his predecessors. But Ford accepts the brickbats as part of his job. It would be inconceivable for him to cancel a subscription to a newspaper* that offended him, as John Kennedy did, or denounce individual reporters in the manner of Lyndon Johnson, much less put wiretaps on newsmen or have them investigated by the FBI as the Nixon Administration ordered...
Though President Eisenhower, rejecting his vice president's advice, decided not to give the resurgent French a couple of nuclear bombs, shortly before the fall of Dien Bien Phu, it was the United States that encouraged Ngo Dinh Diem to cancel the nation wide elections to reunite a divided Vietnam that had been called for in the Geneva agreement of 1954. After helping Diem wrest control of the South Vietnamese army, the United States continued to support him as he used it to break up and destroy competing religious-political sects, disband traditional village councils, and force peasants to leave...
Labor leaders, however, are fighting back. The teachers union threatens to sue the city to prevent an increase in workloads, and the policemen want to cancel their agreement for five payless work days. Meanwhile, Beame is also struggling to squeeze more money out of Albany and Washington and is lobbying for the creation of a federal agency to buy municipal bonds at low interest rates. If he is not successful on these fronts, the city will be forced to take other measures. Among the possibilities: increasing various city taxes, raising the subway fare from 350 and charging tuition at city...
...much for the State Department to overrule the fanatics at the Paris Embassy--a simple clearance, for cultural exchange, would have erased the embassy's efforts. But with all the information at hand, the State Department stalled--citing bureaucratic red tape as the reason--and caused the group to cancel its initial tour...
Solutions are needed fast. In New York, for example, the Argonaut Insurance Co., which was denied a hike of 196.8% in January (after a 93.5% rise last July), plans to cancel all physician policies on July 1. No other company has volunteered to take over for Argonaut, which insures most of the state's doctors. In Maryland, a court order is now preventing the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co., the state's major malpractice insurer, from carrying out its plan to cancel all physician policies. Similar crises exist in North Carolina, Michigan, California and Florida...