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...Washington D.C. the lobbying situation was equally chaotic. Congress remained in session nearly all summer, presenting District civil rights groups with an opportunity to convince, cajole, and inform hundreds of important Democrats. At one point three independent teams of lobbyists were scouring the Hill for the FDP, but lack of coordination led to duplication of effort and endless embarrassment. Without leadership from the Party, the activity was clearly futile, and eventually it disintegrated...
...ready to bring the mercenaries into the open and to start recruiting more. Not that mercenaries alone could solve the Congo's long-range problems but they might conceivably clear and hold the rebel areas, thereby giving Tshombe time to put some order into the nation's chaotic and corrupt administration...
...Johnson we are on the right track." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara seemed intent on demonstrating that Barry Goldwater's status as a major general in the Air Force Reserve does not qualify him as a final authority on military matters. McNamara reported that he had inherited a chaotic situation at the Pentagon in 1961. "Each military service made its own independent plans," he said. The Army relied "on airlift, which the Air Force was unable to provide," stockpiled for a two-year war while the Air Force was set for only a few days of combat. "Funds were allocated...
Lambs on the Doorstep. Charles Helou, 50, the new man in charge of this chaotic but thriving country, is likely to follow his predecessor in letting things alone. A fleshily handsome man, the son of a Maronite Christian druggist, he was graduated from the French-oriented College of St. Joseph and became editor of the French-language daily Le Jour, which has since folded. Helou became Lebanon's representative at the Vatican, later served in parliament and the Cabinet, most recently as Minister of Education. During the 1958 civil war, he joined a "third force" that was neutral...
From here on the story becomes chaotic, centering on the murder of tutor by tutee (quite a dramatic step, actually, for so calculating a fellow). Although the corpse is discovered at film's end, the fate of the young man, happily, is left a question mark. What, if anything, this is supposed to show, is not at all clear, nor even whether it's a case of cleverness or indecision on the director's part; but at least the viewer is spared the disappointment of seeing vice rendered its just desserts...