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Indignant Wife. At his midweek press conference, the President himself retreated strategically under the fire that Charlie had drawn. The Secretary of Defense, he said, measuring his words carefully, "was short-cutting and making a very, I think, unwise statement." Young men who enlisted in the Guard during the Korean war could not be called "slackers," Ike declared, because they had done so "in accordance with the law." But the National Guard, he added-quietly making Charlie's real point all over again-"is never going to be the kind of force we need until we get these recruits...
What Kadar feared most was the establishment of a nationwide coalition of workers' councils that might turn into a kind of parliament. When, at midweek, an organization calling itself the "National Central Workers' Council" began to set up shop in Budapest, Kadar's police moved in on it. Two days later, worried by the proliferation of clandestine newssheets, the police seized every duplicating machine they could lay hands...
...midweek the harassed steelworkers went to court, asked for an injunction to force Dolores to return the keys to the union's files. They also indicated that they would forgive and forget if Dolores would come back, even offered to hike her weekly wage from...
Only in the Middle East did the Russians' bewildering profusion of moves seem astute and controlled. The Kremlin began the week counting out loud the number of Russian "volunteers" begging to set off for Egypt. At midweek, the counting abruptly ceased on receiving plain warning from President Eisenhower that the U.S. would oppose Russian intervention in the Middle East. Next day Premier Bulganin piously denied to France and Britain that Russia "follows in the Near East some sort of special aims directed against the interests of the Western powers." Thus, without expending a single Russian soldier, Russia got credit...
...midweek Israeli intelligence (usually quite good) reported that 24 Russian-manned MIG-17s, accompanied by Soviet transports bringing technicians, radar and ground equipment, had landed in Syria. This report fitted in with the recent visit to Russia of Syrian President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose government and army are more thickly infested with Communists than any other Arab state. His was no casual visit. His wife, his daughter, his Foreign Minister and staff. Minister of Defense. Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Propaganda and the manager of the Central Bank of Syria had flown to the Crimea with an escort of Soviet...