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...healed yet" and that if Kennedy were to visit Russia, it "would put our guest in a difficult position." (Actually, Westerners in Moscow know that, on the contrary, John Kennedy or any other U.S. President would get an overwhelming popular reception from the Russian people, would thereby embarrass the regime.) Khrushchev added nonetheless that there are "no reasons for serious disputes between Russia...
...F.L.N. political leaders. They know that the Soviet Union's longtime reluctance to recognize their government stemmed from Nikita Khrushchev's fear of offending De Gaulle, whom he hoped to use to split the NATO alliance. They are aware that Red Chinese aid was given more to embarrass the West than to help the F.L.N. Even fiery anticolonialist Dr. Frantz Fanon said contemptuously: "If the Communist powers really cared, they would have made a major effort to help us, not just make propaganda with a trickle of aid." Internationally, the F.L.N.'s Algeria is not likely...
...only "domestic problem" easily solved and unequivocally supported by almost all of India. Rudolph added. Attacking Pakistan would alienate American interests, and attacking China would embarrass the Indian Communist Party...
...presto-chango piece of political legerdemain, President Kennedy last week sought to turn a humiliating legislative defeat into a campaign issue that could embarrass the Republican Party throughout election year...
Sylva slowly, painfully struggles away from the animal world. She escapes to the forest, only to discover that it rejects her new body. She escapes again to shack up with a feeble-minded woodcutter and returns to embarrass the prissy Richwick with her uninhibited advances (in a satirical switch, Vercors has Richwick study Freud in order to give Sylva some inhibitions). But the major gap that separates human from animal mentality is man's conscious awareness of his own existence. Eventually, Sylva makes the leap, and from the frightening moment when she discovers herself as an individual entity separate...