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...pleaded your case," he told his miners, "not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled." When John L. Lewis, 89, died last week at Washington, D C.'s Doctors Hospital, he had been president emeritus of the United Mine Workers since 1960. Remembering his years of active leadership, the miners appropriately honored him by walking out of the pits for a four-day period of mourning...
...Gaullists, between workers and patrons, between the presidency and the legislature, between the old France and the new. Politically, Pompidou's unity would doubtless begin at home -in his Cabinet. Some of his most important support has come from outside the Gaullist party, notably from Independent Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Centrist Jacques Duhamel. The endorsements will no doubt be handsomely repaid. Giscard d'Estaing, a successful Finance Minister under De Gaulle, was considered a likely candidate to become Foreign Minister under Pompidou -partly because his most important conditions for support involved working toward European political unity...
DURING the past 23 years, more than half of the world's governments have been overthrown by coups d'etat. Conspirators are increasingly aware that complex societies are vulnerable to attack. Slash a wire, start a rumor, dump LSD into reservoirs: today any determined guerrilla can stop The System. One man with one bullet can change history. A handful can take over a country...
This knowledge has now been systematized in Coup d'Etat, A Practical Handbook, which shows that in practice things are not so easy. Published in the U.S. by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., the book has already been translated into French, Dutch and Italian. It could well become an underground bestseller in nations with a history of toppling regimes, ranging from Peru to Syria, which probably holds the world record in coups-nine attempts since 1949, eight of them successful. Author Edward Luttwak notes that while the number of the world's doctors, teachers and engineers is increasing only...
General Lucius D. Clay, LL.D., soldier and statesman. For his unrelenting devotion to God and country, and his great sense of humanity and compassion toward his fellow...