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Gargantuan Crises. The fighting eased at midweek soon after Premier-designate Rashid Karami finally managed to form what he called a "rescue government." Karami, 53, a Moslem who has served as Premier eight times before, spent seven months in 1969 trying to put together a Cabinet. This time, after the traditional quadrille of maneuvering with many of the country's 21 parties and nine parliamentary blocs, he managed the job in only five weeks. The country might be falling apart around them, but Lebanon's aging political leaders-including President Suleiman Franjieh, 65-painstakingly haggled and bargained their...
...midweek, however, as life in the capital began to return to normal, convoys of armored personnel carriers, trucks and Jeeps cruised through the streets of Beirut to demonstrate that the new government was determined to restore order. The irony of having an army that nobody dared use was not lost on the Lebanese. "Now that it's all over," mused one spectator, "they figure that it's safe to come out in force...
...they had not counted on an extraordinary and almost Lyndonesque display of political arm twisting by that 25-year veteran of the House, Gerald Ford. The President arrived back in Washington from his European trip at midweek. Minority Leader John Rhodes and G.O.P. Whip Robert Michel had already been at work among the potential Republican defectors. For those with aching economic problems in their home districts, Michel spelled out an escape: they could vote against the Democrats and then support his own much reduced version of the jobs bill...
...Carvalho, who insisted that Soares' social democratic friends in the rest of Europe were simply a "cover for international capitalism," and that "the socialism we are constructing in Portugal could spread like wildfire." The appreciative Communists staged a massive street demonstration in support of the M.F.A. But at midweek, Saraiva de Carvalho's forces cracked down not on Soares' Socialists but on the Maoist M.R.P.P. (Movement for the Reorganization of the Party of the Proletariat). In Lisbon, Coimbra and other cities, the police arrested more than 350 members of the M.R.P.P. Among the charges: spreading "false Maoist...
...regular 12-hour shifts. Joshing with the kids and youths, flirting with the pretty Vietnamese girls, they and the Seabees seemed to think it was all a worthwhile lark-which turned out to be just the right attitude to make the Vietnamese feel at home." One sailor decided at midweek to marry the Vietnamese girl whose clothes he had helped wash on the previous Sunday, but whose full name he did not yet know...