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...candidates from six national parties are haranguing voters for 450 seats in the National Assembly. The official campaign is confined to three weeks - just as well, considering Turkish tempers. Last week peasants in one remote town stoned and clubbed leaders of the pseudo-Communist Turkish Labor Party. A major dustup was narrowly averted in Ankara when Labor Party supporters tried to break up a rally of the ultra-conservative Republican Peasants' Nation Party...
Mario Savio, the student chiefly responsible for the dustup, said: "It sounds like a great report." And Byrne won other support. Regent Buff Chandler called it "a good piece of research, well written, with many salient points." Her family newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, published all 85 pages. Governor Pat Brown called it "very thoughtful, very provocative, a good report." U.C.L.A.'s Chancellor Franklin Murphy agreed with its major points...
...Asia, Mao's planes would certainly be swept from the skies in a matter of days. Even the Chinese Nationalists, flying slow F-86 Sabre jets armed with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, were able to shoot down 32 Red Chinese planes during 1958's Formosa Straits dustup. Since then, Red jets have rarely appeared over the Taiwan Straits. Moreover, military experts in Asia note that Chinese jets have not left their borders, even to make a show of force over North Viet...
Doubt & Triumph. Nixon's book, so patently timed to help with his comeback, was also running into heavy going. First there had been the dustup over the book's accusation (denied by the CIA) that Candidate Kennedy had been told about the Cuban invasion plan and adopted it as his own. This, said Nixon, forced him to oppose an invasion plan, even though he favored it (TIME, March...
...Observer was a single section of 32 pages-half of it ads. Of six Page One stories, four datelessly treated trends or events long since dissected by other newspapers, e.g., a lengthy article on police corruption that reprised a Chicago police department scandal (1960) and a similar dustup in Denver...