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...Washington tried to convince State Department officials that the U.S. refusal to sell more planes to Israel had been interpreted by the Russians as a sign of American weakness. It was doubtful that a U.S. warning, even if Washington decided to issue it, would compel the Soviets to diminish their growing involvement in Egypt. Moreover, as long as the Soviet role remains completely defensive, the U.S. would be hard put to fault it. Nor could the Russians back down without suffering a loss of face in the eyes of the sensitive Arabs...
Though it was a sticky wicket, rain in Canberra did nothing to diminish a shining performance by Australian Prime Minister John Gorton. Leading his parliamentary cricket team to a hard-won 121-119 victory over the capital press eleven, the P.M. hit seven runs and bowled out one press batter with a style characterized by a newsman as "unpredictable and suspect...
...effective if sometimes demagogic campaigner, and a maverick Democrat who supported Richard Nixon in 1960, Yorty is not expected to win the June primary. But he has a good chance to divide the party and diminish its already slim hopes. That spoiler role is his real goal, say his critics. Though Reagan has scarcely fulfilled, among other promises, his 1966 pledge to put down campus unrest, he has proved a masterly political animal. A recent state poll shows that 75% of the state's voters think that he has done a "good" or "fair...
...also seemed in 1969 that once the first stage of Safeguard had squeezed through the Senate by a one-vote majority, making the program an accomplished fact, future opposition would diminish. That assumption is not holding up so well. Though the Pentagon wants to go ahead at a slower pace than originally envisioned, it faces an even tougher problem than last year in penetrating senatorial opposition. Safeguard's critics may well succeed in freezing it at its present level...
...contrast, reaction at home was conspicuously sparse. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield expressed general approval of the message. Senator Eugene McCarthy attacked Vietnamization as unlikely to succeed, and undesirable even if it did. But neither McCarthy's criticism nor the lack of congressional comment can diminish the importance of the President's message...