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...before some interesting questions were raised about its language. Particularly bothering some Senators was a provision that the Vice President and a majority of either the Cabinet "or of such other body as Congress may by law" establish could decide that the President was incapacitated, inform Congress of the disability, and have the Vice President take over as Acting President...
Proving the Point. The President took special pains to inform Hanoi of the purpose of the lull. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Foy Kohler told Red China's Moscow embassy about it. U.S. officials let Russian diplomats in Washington know. The French, British and Canadians-all of whom have pipelines to Hanoi-were informed. Each was asked to pass on the message that any hostile action by the Viet Cong during the lull would prompt the U.S. to double its bomb loads if and when the raids resumed. North Viet Nam brusquely condemned the lull...
Masters, the memorandum states, will "be free to inform the Standing Committee and its staff of general manpower needs they would like to have considered, as well as particular students they may hope to have assigned to them...
...fact that his Rhodesian Front's only opposition party was also largely white bothered Smith and his followers not at all. Full-page ads warned of "a black future for all" unless Smith got his way. Posters appeared everywhere to inform voters they could "Trust Mr. Smith - he will never hand over Rhodesia." Jeering at the British demand that Rhodesia's blacks should be given increased voting rights, a Smith backer at one rally shouted, "I've got three dogs; can they vote...
...regular meetings in Basel of the semigovernmental Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which arranges short-term credits for central banks. The central bankers make a three-day weekend of it, gathering two days ahead of the BIS meeting for a round of closed-door talks to inform and advise each other on monetary problems and plans. IMF Managing Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer calls the exclusive group the "best club in the world." Meetings: once a month in Basel...