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...scene that could happen only in the House of Commons. There on the front row sprawled the Prime Minister, his feet propped on the table beside the dispatch box, where his Chancellor of the Exchequer droned on sonorously about Britain's finances. From the jammed benches on both sides of the chamber came a cacophony of hoots and jeers. It got louder and louder as James Callaghan spelled out the political package that he and Harold Wilson had designed to please the public. First, he promised that there would be no major tax increases for the average wage earner...
Peculiarly Clear. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, however, was less worried about the physical dangers of Johnson's trip than it was angry at its "showy and confusing" detraction from "the primary business at hand, which is to gain agreement on terms for a peace conference." Others might be impressed by talk of social reform in Viet Nam; not the PD, which found the idea "utterly fantastic." It would require conquering the Viet Cong, and that would take "a military effort of many long years-the establishment of an armed American occupation...
Possibly in the interests of international decorum, the government did not specify charges, but every Lebanese trader could itemize the likeliest opportunities for a safqa (deal) in the foreign service: peddling diplomatic codes and official reports, for example, or trading in black-market currencies. One confidential dispatch recently turned up in a Cairo newspaper before it reached the foreign office in Beirut...
...lighter side, when he left Beirut in 1954 after three years as Middle East bureau chief, he was the subject of a tongue-in-cheek U.S. embassy cable to the State Department. Dispatch No. 439 began: "Plumpish, sunburned, middle-aging James Bell had been a man with a timely mission: to present the complex, rapidly unfolding story of the Middle East to TIME readers...
...exchange was reported last week in a New York Times dispatch from Moscow. The prisoner was Aleksandr Esenin-Volpin, 41, the son of flamboyant Revolutionary Poet Sergei Esenin, who committed suicide in 1925. Himself a poet of prominence, Esenin-Volpin had been arrested as a ringleader of the short-lived demonstration in Pushkin Square that demanded a public trial for Andrei Sinyavsky, generally believed to be the pseudonymous Abram Tertz, and Yuli Daniel, who wrote under the name Nikolai Arzhak (TIME...