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...Churchill dictum, dated 1946: "We must build a kind of United States of Europe." Heath's task-and it is likely to be the most important of his career-is to persuade the British that their destiny lies not toward the open sea but across the Channel, the ditch that long rendered them impregnable to continental conquerors but also cut them off from a more active role in Europe...
...backing increased in the last two months of the campaign, Texas was swept up in the tide of his resurgence. The polls swung to Humphrey and Connally found himself stranded. In an effort to steady his political base, he appeared with Johnson and Humphrey at a huge, last-ditch rally in Houston the week before the elections. Shortly beforehand. Connally had publicly reaffirmed his support of Humphrey. It proved to be an expedient move: Humphrey did carry Texas on election day, and Connally lost the Cabinet post that may have accompanied a Nixon victory in Texas...
Israel, which has never been allowed to send a ship through the canal, was wary. For one thing, the Israelis consider the waterway an ideal tank ditch against any Egyptian cross-canal movements. The farthest that Israeli troops would probably withdraw from the Bar-Lev Line would be to an area from which they could see or hear Egyptian or Russian troops crossing the canal in strength. Israel indicated last week that it would also oppose the rebuilding of bridges over the canal. Moreover, Israel insisted that it would consider a Suez settlement as a separate agreement...
McGuire had taken the job in a last-ditch attempt to put his idealism to work in the U.S. In his senior year at Berkeley, he earned the highest grade-point average (3.9) in the College of Letters and Science?then decided that he had become enslaved to "American fanaticism" about achievement. On a Fulbright scholarship at Oxford's Balliol College, he earned a doctorate with a dissertation on The History of St. Anselm's Theology of the Redemption in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. But his discontent with the U.S. deepened...
Calley was also convicted of the murder of a Vietnamese man dressed in the white robes of a monk and of assault to commit murder for shooting at a small child in the ditch...