Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon said last week that 100,000 troops will be withdrawn between May 1 and Dec. 1 as part of the Vietnamization plan. As withdrawals continue, the remaining U.S. troops around Saigon will be turned into a hard-hitting strike force, a field commander said...
...colpo di stato, as Italians refer to a coup d'etat, had been scheduled for Dec. 8. That night nearly a thousand of his followers assembled near the Interior Ministry, nerve center of Italy's police and government communications network. They never received the go-ahead. Instead, Borghese was mysteriously warned that his ultra-rightist National Front had long since been infiltrated and the plot was known. Reluctantly Borghese agreed to cancel the coup. By way of consolation, he treated his commanders to a late spaghetti supper...
Through what now appears to have been a deliberate government leak, the pro-Communist newspaper Paese Sera two weeks ago learned of the Dec. 8 farce. PLOT BY THE EXTREME RIGHT, headlined the daily. But Colombo's government rather than the Communists emerged as the spearhead of anti-Fascist vigilance. That was the feeling after warrants were issued last week for the arrest of Prince Borghese and five aides for seeking "to provoke an armed insurrection...
WITH ALL due respect to Professor Kennan's formidable distinction, his "Fresh Thoughts on South Africa" (The New York Times, 18 Dec., 1970), should more appropriately. have been entitled, "Stale Thoughts on South Africa." Professor Kennan spiritedly argues against the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force against the tyranny of South Africa-one hears, in the italicized words, echoes of Kennan's celebrated "X" article of 1947-as the only dialogue possible with the rulers of that country. Instead, he has now urged the need for anyone troubled by the tragedy of South Africa to "hold the white rulers...
Monsieur le Gorille. Malraux visited the retired President and his wife Yvonne for a little more than six hours at their home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises on Dec. 11, 1969. He did not record the conversation or take notes, but later felt compelled to reconstruct their conversation. Writes Malraux in his preface: "With surprise I found out that we know of no dialogue between a great historical figure and a great artist-painter, writer, musician. We have no better knowledge of Julius II's dialogues with Michelangelo than of their loud quarreling. Nor of those between Alexander...