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...Gaulle's nationalism is a mistrust of international organization. The united Europea he envisions is not a system of closely integrated national entities. Rather it is an alliance of foreign policies that would be canalized through the government of the strongest--quite naturally France. In the meantime, France will flex her muscles where she likes. Last year's Franco-German friendship treaty has provoked the charge within the Atlantic Alliance and Common Market that France is seeking a "special relationship" with West Germany. Despite breast-beating denials in Paris, the terms of the treaty quite clearly ally the two republics...
Maybe it was and maybe it was not. In the swirling Middle East struggle, Cairo would flex its muscles where it could. The successful coups in Yemen, Syria and Iraq were no surprise to Gamal Abdel Nasser. He knew they were coming, if not precisely when and how. He knew the conspirators involved in each, though he claims to have pulled no strings. Cairo is thickly populated by exiles from every corner of the Arab world, ranging from Syria's tough Abdul Hamid Serraj, who originally failed Nasser in Damascus, to obscure Tunisians, Yemenis, Saudis, Jordanians and refugees from...
...train, peremptorily bade him "keep quiet" when he tried to interrupt. Texaco's Chairman Augustus C. Long was visibly rankled by a woman who accused him of not fighting hard enough in defense of the oil industry's 27% depletion allowance. "When are you going to flex your muscles?" she cried. Long flexed them just long enough to turn...
View from the Bridge. For the Navy it was a rare opportunity to flex muscles in a full-dress exercise for its Commander in Chief and an audience that included Vice President Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 29 top-ranking members of Congress, and the diplomatic representatives of 44 nations. After the naval parade, the President helicoptered to Enterprise to watch the Atlantic Fleet in battle exercises...
...like the finish, Brian deliberately aims his gun so as to avoid hitting the enemy. At the end of his hitch, he ships back to England, musing that he has found "the key to the door . . . And with the key to the door, all you need do now . . . was flex your laboring muscles to open...