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The President had spent long days in mulling over his line of attack. On Aug. 7 Nixon awoke at 2 a.m., took a notebook from his bedside table and wrote a six-page outline of the main points he wanted to make. That evening he sailed on the Potomac for...
On the surface at least, the youth festival reflected East Germany's emerging worldliness after the iron-fisted rule of Walter Ulbricht that ended two years ago (see story above). It was kicked off with a huge parade led by the Vietnamese delegates, who ignited strings of firecrackers to...
In voting ochi (no), Greeks could merely embarrass the regime by refusing Papadopoulos' request for them to legitimize his rule. He vowed in a television address not to resign and "not to be overthrown by a vote of rejection." Whether Greeks voted yes to accept a so-called republic...
Politically, South Korea has turned into a dictatorship-and a tough-fisted one at that. Since November 1971, Park has systematically tightened his authoritarian control over the country, rewriting the constitution and emasculating the National Assembly. Today no factions of the populace dare defy him. Park insists that he needs...
YET THE BIGGEST mistake many of Dunlop's adversaries made was not to take him seriously. He refused to play the game by Harvard's rules of quiet civility, using his style as a hard-boiled tough egg, two-fisted beer drinking labor negotiator to keep his opponents off-balance...