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...fortnight the anti-Communist forces in Laos have been in chaos. First, the charismatic commander of the neutralist army, General Kong Le, flew off to Thailand in a huff when three of his colonels challenged his right to give the orders. He was already unpopular because of three "dragon's eggs" given him by a superstitious peasant. Draconic rage at their theft supposedly brought floods down upon the land (TIME, Oct. 21), so his rest cure in Bangkok for what he called a "sprained arm" was likely to be lengthy. Then came a rebellion of royalist air force officers...
...reverse," he said, reassuring the white liberals in the N.A.A.C.P. that they were needed, after all. Lillian Smith, author of Killers of the Dream and one of CORE's charter members, summarized the feelings of many white members of SNCC and CORE when she left the organization in a huff of epithets: "nihilists, old-fashioned haters, the new 'killers of the dream...
Contrary to most predictions, the 1966 primary elections were little affected by the obvious emotional issues of the hour. Huff and puff as they might, no candidates were able to whip up any meaningful support for antiwar protests. Nor was there any evidence of reaction against the Johnson Administration's Great Society legislation. There were no measurable swings toward either liberal or conservative sentiment; there was not even any contest between Kennedy Democrats and Humphrey loyalists. Nor did the new black-power militancy of the American Negro influence the voting to any great extent...
...reports reaching Chancellor Ludwig Erhard at his vacation bungalow on Bavaria's Tegernsee were deeply disturbing. First, the commanding general of the Luftwaffe resigned in a huff. Then, in rapid succession, came two more walkouts, including that of West Germany's highest-ranking officer...
...named army commander in chief. But as his country's problems piled higher and higher, Onganía gradually lost patience with Illia, particularly after Illia refused to send a contingent of troops to join the OAS force in the Dominican Republic. Last November, in a rare public huff, Onganía resigned. "The real question," as one officer put it prophetically at the time, "is whether Onganía will be more trouble out than...