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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAROLD NICOLSON: THE LATER YEARS, 1945-1962, VOL. Ill OF DIARIES AND LETTERS, edited by Nigel Nicolson. This third and final installment of Author-Politician Nicolson's sprightly and candid reminiscences clinches his position as the brightest British diarist since Pepys...
Humphrey's apprehension over volatile Democratic loyalties on the eve of Chicago prompted him to provoke an ill-advised skirmish within the Ohio delegation last week. Humphrey operatives, irritated because Democratic Senatorial Can didate John J. Gilligan had not yet endorsed the Vice President, insisted upon a showdown caucus. Also, Humphrey wrote a letter to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. leader suggesting that Gilligan be pressured into making an endorsement. Immediately, union campaign contributions were withdrawn. In an angry caucus last week, Humphrey, who had counted on at least 100 of Ohio's 115 delegate votes, received only...
...Communists rise up so prematurely-long before they were ready for a real test of armed strength with the government? Puzzled Djakarta officials put it down to the Indonesian Communists' notoriously bad sense of timing and planning. After all, an ill-prepared Communist uprising flopped in 1948, and the 1965 coup attempt was a model of mismanaged conspiracy...
...Vice President could ill afford the eupepsia. The Democratic Party is as badly split as ever over the war. In fact, South Dakota Senator George McGovern's belated entry into the race can only increase intraparty factionalism (see following story). Moreover, the G.O.P.'s nomination of Spiro Agnew will tend to reduce the pressures for Democratic unity that might have resulted if a liberal Republican such as John Lindsay had been named to run with Nixon...
...keep the Congolese from contacting foreigners but in reality to isolate the large Chinese Embassy staff. Massamba-Debat also re-established relations with Great Britain, which were broken over the Rhodesia crisis 21 years ago. He even hinted that a U.S. mission, pulled out in 1965 because of ill-treatment of American diplomats, might again be welcome. Last month he climaxed his drive by dissolving the leftist-dominated National Assembly and by having several leaders of Jeunesse and his own party arrested...