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...channel all U.S. aid to Laos through an international body acceptable to both sides. This would include a willingness to provide a proportionate share of aid to Communist-dominated Pathet Lao areas, provided that they had accepted peaceable reintegration with a nationally elected government...
...Department let it be known that if the Russians called off their open assistance to the Pathet Lao rebels in the north, the U.S. would even be willing to pull out its 162-man team of soldiers in civilian clothes presently attached to the Royal Laotian Army, and to channel future aid through the neutral commission...
Virile Language. Across the English Channel, the French press, conquering an early disposition to water enthusiasm with Gallic doubt, has taken to Kennedy and his French-descended wife. "His virile language," said Roger Massip of Le Figaro, "is designed to stir up the energies of a great nation which is threatened by the excesses of her prosperity." Said the normally skeptical Le Monde: "There is every reason to believe that [Kennedy diplomacy] will result in spectacular developments in the near future...
...week: his Administration will accelerate defense procurement, federal highway and post office construction, the payment of income tax refunds and the award of Government contracts to small business in depressed areas. All those devices, tried and proved by the Republican Administration in the recessions of 1954 or 1958, would channel more spending money into the consumer economy and put men back to work...
Cursing & Conniving. The question facing the House was whether to adopt Rayburn's resolution calling for the addition of three new members (two Democrats and one Republican) to the Rules Committee, the channel through which most major legislation has to pass before it can get to the floor of the House to be debated and voted on. In that simple question, a mere housekeeping detail on the surface, much was at stake: Sam Rayburn's own prestige, the balance of power between liberals and conservatives in the House, and the congressional prospects of Kennedy Administration legislative programs...