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Just about everybody had a plan for pacifying Laos, but none of the plans agreed. Revival of the old International Control Commission that policed Laos from 1954 to 1958 seemed the likeliest solution, and the U.S. and Britain supported the idea. The chief problem was that both India, chairman of the old commission, and Russia, the chief troublemaker, refused to recognize the U.S.-backed government of Premier Prince Boun...
...impacts of the Kennedy and Nixon personalities, the uncertainty over whether Ike could transfer some of his popularity and prestige to Nixon, the reluctance of so many voters to reveal their choice-the pollsters qualified their predictions and wished that they could avoid any stand at all. But the likeliest forecast seemed to run from a close Nixon victory to a Kennedy electoral landslide...
...same kind of chaos that toppled the Fourth Republic-all that restrained the army was the fact that France's head of state was Charles de Gaulle, who clearly had overwhelming public support in Metropolitan France. Public opinion in the Metropole was behind De Gaulle partly because the likeliest alternative to his government was civil war, partly because his contemptuous refusal to bow to the insurgents' pressure gave good republicans the kind of leadership they had lacked in 1958. Frenchmen also saw Algiers' unseemly display as a blow to France's claim to be a great...
...likeliest candidates to succeed Nehru are Patil himself, a tough, able administrator who is India's closest approximation of an anything-goes U.S. politician, and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 63, an eccentric but capable mixture of far-out ideas on sex and alcohol (he is against both). Gandhian attitudes, and administrative talent. Both .men are strongly pro-Western, anti-Communist and holders of pragmatic economic views. But when Nehru last year announced that he wanted to step down as Prime Minister, Congress Party stalwarts, swept by panic, cried: "Pandit ji, you are leaving us orphans...
...rebels chosen to give De Gaulle an answer they knew he could not accept? The likeliest explanation was that they were counting on a U.N. vote of condemnation against France when the General Assembly debates the Algerian question in the next few weeks, and recognized that their chances of getting one would be slim, unless they made at least a pretense of accepting De Gaulle's call for negotiations...