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...lessen Irma's public effect. Information Chief Augusto Mulet Descamps tried both sneers and smears. He publicly branded her opinions "treasonable," and in official information bulletins, called her a vamp and a blackmailer. Mulet, 48, even tried to plant a story that Irma used her column to get even with him because he spurned her advances. When most Guatemalan newspapers refused to print that story, he wanted to run it as a paid ad, was again turned down...
...United States," said he, as he prepared to go to the summit, "would be derelict to its responsibility not only to the American people but to free peoples everywhere if it did not, in the absence of Soviet cooperation, take such measures as are possible unilaterally to lessen and to overcome this danger of surprise attack. In fact, the U.S. has not and does not shirk this responsibility." When Khrushchev responded with a threat to "strike" and "hit" at any nation that provided an airbase for such U.S. intelligence flights, the State Department replied that the U.S. would defend...
...mass destruction frequently voiced by the Soviet leadership," the Government of the U.S. would be "derelict in its responsibility not only to the American people but to free peoples everywhere if it did not, in the absence of Soviet cooperation, take such measures as are possible unilaterally to lessen and to overcome the danger of surprise attack." At his press conference two days later, President Eisenhower charged that the Soviet "fetish of secrecy and concealment ... is a major cause of international tension and uneasiness today." Under such circumstances, he said, espionage "is a distasteful but vital necessity...
...Administration's remaining nine months, Herter hopes to lessen "the dangers of the Frankenstein monsters we have created in the war machines of the world," with the first shackle on the nuclear monster possibly a test-ban treaty. But last week Chris Herter characteristically promised no international Utopia in his speech to the National Association of Broad casters in Chicago. "We can hardly move forward confidently in negotiating new arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union if our existing agreements with them about Berlin are meanwhile being violated," said he. "If anyone looks for dramatic achievements at the summit...
People smoke, they say, to convince themselves that they are mature and sophisticated, to avoid or lessen tensions, to aid social poise, or just to have something to do with their hands. Young people smoke cigarettes to appear older, older people to appear younger...