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...denied that interpretation. "My God," he said, through Aide Jack Brennan, "I've used that statement a dozen times before, and I used it in a general context. There is no such thing as instant peace. It could also apply to the United Nations Charter or the Shanghai communiqué or any international document." Nonetheless, coming in the midst of specifically anti-détente remarks by the Chinese, Nixon's statement lent itself to the interpretation that it was a slap at Ford's policy-and thus precisely fitted Peking's mood...
...week's end Moroccan communiqués claimed the area had been "cleansed of all rebel elements." Algerian pride, still wounded by a Moroccan whipping in the 1963 border war, had been stung again. Should Boumedienne try to even the score, Algeria's army would be far from supply bases and pitted against a Moroccan force roughly its equal in size and skill. But Algeria's 3-to-1 advantage in air power could prove decisive in the Sahara's frigid, windswept wadies and salt flats, whose sparse vegetation creates ideal strafing ground...
This is a communiqué from the Gotham front: propaganda ease the long taxpaying days ahead - and a warning to the boonies that New Yorkers have not lost their greatest asset - gallows humor. The trio of Renny Temple, Patti Perkins and Len Gochman are so charming however that their hardest blow is gentlest satire. There is a visit to Cold Cash, New York's First Passionate Bank, and a chat with an ancient on a park bench who used to bet with his late wife - "Whoever goes first loses." Norman Mailer crosses the Hud son as the city-nation...
...after telephoned warnings. The targets are carefully chosen for maximum effect on businessmen and politicians. Says a federal official: "If the underground radicals read much at all, it is the business pages of newspapers. They take what they can out of them to justify their bombings in their communiqu...
...boycotted by delegates from both the army and the air force, which sent only their chiefs of staff to represent them. It degenerated into a shouting match. Seeing how little support he had, Gonçalves accepted the inevitable and−in the euphemistic phrase of the official communiqué−"declined the place of chief of the general staff...