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...known. Britain's Labor government was finding it increasingly difficult to defend the U.S. in Commons. The U.N.'s U Thant had long since criticized the Johnson Administration for failing to keep the U.S. informed of the "true facts" about Viet Nam. Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson made a speech in Philadelphia urging the U.S. to call a temporary halt in bombing North Viet Nam. And from a 17-nation conference in Belgrade, with countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zambia, came still another appeal for peace negotiations...
Also, Michael A. Lerner, Lawrence Lipson, Harrison G. Lowry, John P. Lynch, Donald G. Marshall, Jeffrey S. Mehlman, Theodore H. Moran, Miles Morgan, Lester R. Morss, Martin A. Nurmi, Roger D. Nussbaum, Charles H. Rammelkamp, Michael Reiss, Sherman Robinson. David N. Rosen, William D. Rothman, Stephen R. Sacks, Robert M. Shapley, Henry F. Smith III, Thomas E. Staley, Phillip G. Stanley, A. Thomas Tymoczko, Owen S. Walker, James D. Wilkinson, and Peter W. Williams...
...Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson at the height of the French Canadian separatist terrorism in 1963, the commission dug back into Canadian history, traveled all across the country interviewing hundreds of organizations and more than 11,000 individuals. It reported that while English-speaking Canadians are basically satisfied with their lives, French Canadians are not and are in an increasingly dangerous mood about...
...both sides questioned the tone of high alarm. The commission did most of its interviewing in the spring and summer of 1964, when tensions were still high after a tiny lunatic fringe of Quebec separatists had been bombing mailboxes and raiding armories. The situation has eased considerably since then. Lester Pearson has appointed more French Canadians to key Cabinet posts than any other Prime Minister, and made a start on lowering the language barrier in the civil service. Canada has a new maple-leaf flag that symbolizes neither English nor French. And Pearson has gone far to meet Quebec Premier...
...writing for grownups, and he has a murky, modern, antiromantic intelligence. The promise of enchantment is fulfilled only in irony. His coral cuts, his sandy beaches are alive with stinging sand flies. His ocean has sharks and floating garbage. His only pirate is a boozy, busted corporate raider named Lester Atlas, who staggers into every scene with a yo-ho-ho and a rum and tonic. His hero is a middle-aged (49) New York Jew with a heart condition. The result is not romance but farce laced with tears...