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Makarios objected to the disbanding of the Greek Cypriot National Guard, his main instrument of power, so long as the Turks were allowed to keep 650 men stationed on Cyprus and the Greeks 950. If the Guard must go, maintained Makarios, so must the foreign troops. He also felt that the sovereignty of Cyprus would be jeopardized by any broadening of U.N. jurisdiction on the island beyond the U.N.'s present duty to maintain the peace with 4,000 troops...
Mindless Waves. The target of the week's first attack was no surprise. It was Bo Due, a remote district-headquarters compound within easy commuting distance of the Communists' Cambodian sanctuary. What surprised U.S. officers was the identity of the attacking force. It was the main-force Viet Cong 272nd Regiment, which took such a severe mauling at Loc Ninh last month that Major General John H. Hay, commander of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, predicted that it would be three to six months before the 9th V.C. Division, of which the 272nd is a part, would...
...unique in one respect: its action is so much more selective that it appears to do no harm whatever to normal cells. Since L-asparaginase was erroneously reported to have cured a case of childhood leukemia (TIME, April 14; July 7), researchers have been trying to answer three main questions: 1) Against what types of cancer is it effective?; 2) Will a laboratory test show in advance whether a particular patient's disease will respond?; and 3) Even though L-Asparaginase spares normal cells, how severe are its other harmful effects...
...Dais. Though Spellman never openly favored a political candidate, he was a powerful influence in New York and sometimes in the nation. He frequently made known his preference for a candidate by the choice of main speaker at his annual Al Smith Memorial Dinner. In 1948 the man on the dais was Thomas Dewey; in 1952 he was Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared the honors, evidence of the cardinal's neutrality. As a subtle behind-the-scenes mover, Spellman was the equal of any of his guests...
...thematic and technical freedom is a cause for unrestrained rejoicing; there is the obvious danger that it will be used excessively for the sake of gimmickry or shock. But the fact is that innovation is no longer the private preserve of the art houses but a characteristic of the main-line American movie. Two for the Road, otherwise an ordinary Audrey Hepburn vehicle, has as much back-and-forth juggling of chronology as any film made by Alain Resnais-not to mention a comic acidity about marital discord that is as candid as anything the Swedes have said. Even...