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...violence on both sides that had marked last month's anti-Dean Rusk dustup at the New York Hilton was notably absent. Frustrated by competent cops, who refused to club them into martyrdom, the dissenters finally began to dissent among themselves. Even the presence of Lyndon Johnson at St. Patrick's Cathedral for Cardinal Spellman's funeral failed to unite them: protesters halfheartedly staked out the midtown cathedral, but soon dispersed. At Battery Park, moderates and militants clashed in a shoving match during a violent argument over whether to march on city hall...
Wartime Snafu. Honestly surprised by the furor, Thieu and Ky called a press conference of their own to ex plain what went wrong. Far from being sabotage, the dustup at Dong Ha, said Thieu, was only a wartime snafu. And the person most responsible for the foul-up was not a government official; he was the chairman of the central cam paign committee, whom the civilian candidates themselves had appointed. The chairman had failed to give the province chief the correct information. But even though the reception committee found itself at the wrong airstrip, Thieu continued, it rushed to Dong...
...Unite?" Though no one questioned the accuracy of Thieu's report on the Dong Ha dustup, the significant details went largely unreported in the U.S. until aired in a statement by Assistant Secretary of State William P. Bundy. Before that, Senators of both parties jumped at the chance of charging Ky with turning the election into a "fraud" and a "charade...
Still, loyalties are never long-lived in Laos, and Souvanna's fragile web of alliances-of groups loyal to the top ten ruling families, to the military and to other regional powers besides himself-could easily rip. Fiery Neutralist General Kong Le, who fled Laos after a dustup over dragons' eggs (TIME, Oct. 21), was in Indonesia and uneasily noncommittal. Army Commander Kouprasith, who has his own ambitions for Laos, was enigmatically silent. A lot would depend on how Souvanna Phouma and the new Assembly get along together after it convenes in early February...
...acerbic legal dustup, Ernest Hemingway's widow Mary tried in vain to enjoin publication of this book, contended that A. E. Hotchner had appropriated literary material that rightfully belonged to her as Hemingway's beneficiary, and accused Hotchner of "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money" (TIME, Feb. 11). Hotchner certainly will make money from this book: serialization rights were sold to the Saturday Evening Post for about $50,000, it is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and, with 60,000 copies in print, it is clearly destined...