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...NATO allies but confused a good many people who find it difficult to follow the general's sometimes Byzantine reasoning. Last week, replying to an unsuccessful censure motion by opposition Deputies who disagree with De Gaulle's tactics, French Premier Georges Pompidou delivered the most lucid exposition to date of the De Gaulle attitude toward NATO. Its remarkable contention: NATO is a U.S. device that in effect spares U.S. and Russian territory in any nuclear conflict by inviting a nuclear exchange "between the Atlantic and Poland's eastern border-that is, in Europe, a Europe destined...
...played a note. He rushes to the piano and begins. The lean, intense face seems to exhale a melancholy all its own, but the fingers are as joyous as they were in the old days. The Chopin sings; the opaque, psychedelic visions of Scriabin are somehow made lucid. A critic calls him still a monarch. His wife is overjoyed at all the adulation. "Mr. Horowitz," she says, "is like a fifth Beatle...
...TIME presents a lucid summary of a confusing situation. There is no doubt that the question is in the minds of many laymen and clergy, but too often the layman is afraid to ask it and the priest draws back from facing the challenge it presents...
...lucid, 45-page decision replete with psychiatric, legal and historical scholarship, Kaufman suggested that M'Naghten has really been out of date since its formulation in 1843, when Daniel M'Naghten tried to assassinate British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel and killed his secretary instead. M'Naghten was so clearly out of his mind, said Kaufman, that his judges found him not guilty on the enlightened theory that his delusion of persecution by Peel had caused the act. The law's attitude toward insanity seemed to have taken an impressive leap forward...
Speaking so softly that a technician had to turn up the volume on his microphone, the general began with a precise, lucid defense of U.S. purposes and policies. The objective, he said, is not "the occupation of all South Viet Nam or the hunting down of the last armed guerrilla" but rather the nation's independence and freedom from attack. An ancillary aim is to discourage future Communist attempts to swallow "weak nations which are vulnerable targets for subversive aggression-to use the proper term for the 'war of liberation.' " The importance of the conflict...