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...answer. Sadat's diplomacy for peace is therefore appealing, provided it produces results. But there surely is a point down the road when an intolerable moment will arrive. It could then be that the pressure would bear down hard on Sadat and he would have to order a go-ahead." That would probably mean another defeat and an end to Sadat's reign...
...colpo di stato, as Italians refer to a coup d'etat, had been scheduled for Dec. 8. That night nearly a thousand of his followers assembled near the Interior Ministry, nerve center of Italy's police and government communications network. They never received the go-ahead. Instead, Borghese was mysteriously warned that his ultra-rightist National Front had long since been infiltrated and the plot was known. Reluctantly Borghese agreed to cancel the coup. By way of consolation, he treated his commanders to a late spaghetti supper...
...Kaufman have correctly analyzed the military profit machine, there is considerable urgency about reforming the Pentagon's contracting practices. In 1969 alone, the go-ahead signal was given for two new fighter aircraft-the Navy's F-14 and the Air Force's F-15-as well as a new supersonic bomber, several new missiles and torpedoes, a new antisubmarine aircraft, a landing helicopter assault ship, the anti-ballistic missile system (ABM), and a new bomber defense system. Last year the Pentagon requested only $2.2 billion to begin all this work, but it has since added...
...President Nguyen Van Thieu. The American code name for the operation, Dewey Canyon II. was replaced by a Vietnamese name: Lam Son 719.* The switch was part of the coy effort to cast the invasion as an all-South Vietnamese effort, though it was initiated, planned and given the go-ahead in the White House, and was overseen by General Creighton W. Abrams. U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. The shift in code names also underscored the extent to which Indochina's long war has changed. As French Journalist and Guerrilla Historian Jean Larteguy (The Centurions) put it last...
Dave Hynes put the Crimson on top, 1-0, in the first two minutes of action, and Clarkson didn't respond until Alf Machi tied the score late in the first period. But after that, a go-ahead tally by one team was followed quickly by a tying goal by the other...