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...Nixon is being ill-advised on the economy by Shultz and Economic Adviser Paul McCracken, as well as by Treasury Secretary John Connally, who has emerged as the chief circuit rider and advocate for the Administration line. Burns also holds White House Assistants John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman in contempt as low-caliber politicians. He contends that unrealistically optimistic statements only decrease the Administration's credibility with hardheaded business and labor leaders, who appreciate candor. When a friend told Burns that the Administration feels he is not cooperating on economic policy, Burns snapped: "I'll do my part...
Yahya, 54, runs his country pretty much the same way-with impatience, ill-disguised contempt for bungling civilians, and a cultivated air of resentment about having let himself get involved in the whole messy business in the first place When Ayub Khan yielded the presidency to him two years ago, Yahya switched from khaki to dark business suits, which he still wears with obvious discomfort. As if to emphasize his longing for the barracks, he occasionally carries a swagger stick and misses no chance to play the simple, straight-talking soldier...
...General Do Cao Tri, the flamboyant III Corps commander who died in a helicopter smash-up last February, accused then General (and former Senator) Tran Van Don of being "round"-a Vietnamese term of contempt for someone who will roll in any direction...
...named Karin (Bibi Andersson), who is approaching middle age and who, after 15 years of marriage, yields to her first extramarital affair. Hers is a loving, even a model marriage, which her affair inevitably endangers. And her choice-of a lover implies strong tendencies toward an almost suicidal self-contempt...
Soon the committee will argue contempt charges; if the whole House should vote to hold him in contempt of Congress, he could be fined, or go to jail...