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...variant on this single theme: 1) his proposal for a French-British-U.S. directorate of NATO; 2) his attempts to shape the European Common market into a French-dominated confederation; and 3) his insistence on developing his own nuclear bomb and defense forces-arguing that France cannot depend on anyone else, not even the U.S., to protect it in case of Soviet attack...
...these principles," wrote Cayley, "upon which the support, steadiness, elevation, depression and steerage of vessels for aerial navigation depend, have been abundantly verified by experiments upon a large and small scale. I made a machine having a surface of 300 sq. ft. ... and it would sail downwards in any direction according to the set of the rudder . . . When any person ran forward in it with his full speed, taking advantage of a gentle breeze in front, it would bear upward so strongly as scarcely to allow him to touch the ground, and would frequently lift him up and convey...
Phillips, who is a national director of the Young Americans for Freedom and who served in various posts in the Nixon-Lodge campaign, is more cautious. "My chances depend on the appropriate combination of preparation and opportunities." Working hard to secure his position, the ultra-conservative student has traveled extensively in his search for votes...
...hand-Talal and Tariki could find themselves out and the Feisal crowd back in. The dilemma, according to one Saudi, is that "Feisal 'feels that reforms will topple the throne, while Talal feels that without them the throne will topple." But both are loyal to the King, and depend on him. Says Tariki: "Change and reform are in the air and have the support of the King. Our royal family didn't create Saudi Arabia, but it does hold Saudi Arabia together. This country is like a block of sand, and without the house of Saud, it might...
...Cold War. Yet, in most cases, their values come from the West, and men like Ayub Khan and Nyerere are trying to do precisely what Western statesmen should be doing--reworking the Western liberal heritage to apply it to the non-Western world. On their success or failure depend the answers to the questions that Mrs. Dean says must still be resolved: whether the present benevolent authoritarianism will turn toward democracy or toward totalitarianism? whether the guided economies will emphasize immediate welfare benefits for the people or will postpone benefits in favor of current sacrifice? whether, in short, the revamped...