Word: fiascos
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Chief cause of this fiasco was a miscalculation by Reuther. Three weeks ago, in a move to pressure G.M. for improved working conditions, Reuther gave the U.A.W.'s G.M. plant locals the go-ahead to strike over local issues in the belief that he could call his men back whenever he wanted. But Reuther underestimated the unrest in the locals. Last week in Detroit the U.A.W. Council which represents all the locals in G.M. plants, agreed to accept the nationwide contract that Reuther had negotiated, then turned around and voted for a full-scale strike until all local disputes...
...well-timed chance to get away from Washington. In the weeks before he left, Bowles had twice been summoned to private lunches with President Kennedy. The President was irked because Bowles alone, of top Administration officials, had leaked word of his prior opposition to the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba. But fundamentally his displeasure went deeper. Bowles was originally put into the State Department to be shop administrator, and had preferred instead to act more like a policymaker in his own right...
...help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After the fiasco at Suez, the British were delighted at the chance to demonstrate that they could still defend the vital areas of the Middle East that are the source of Britain...
Last week, at the request of John F. Kennedy, General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 59, former (1955-59) U.S. Army Chief of Staff, agreed to return to active duty with the title of Military Representative of the President. Taylor, who in the wake of the Cuban fiasco recently completed a top-secret study of U.S. cold war capacities, will keep watch on military planning for world crises, serve as the White House's watchdog on the work of the Central Intelligence Agency. A brainy, courageous combat warrior, but not much of a team player, Taylor is likely...
...seeks to strengthen peace, as he confers with foreign leaders whether friendly or hostile, he has the hopeful and sympathetic good will of all loyal Americans, regardless of party . . . We cannot allow, today, the nation's basic unity of purpose to be in doubt." Without mentioning the Cuban fiasco, Ike had a wry reminder of the minority party's right to be informed: "Republicans rightly expect to be consulted before, not after, the hour of decision or the moment of action...