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Charles de Gaulle kept mum on his own police force's involvement in the kidnaping. And when a French magistrate finally played a tape recording reputed to carry the incriminating testimony of Paris Gangster Georges Figon (a participant in the plot who "committed suicide" just before French cops burst through his doorway), all that was heard was a trite cops-and-robbers script for a movie that Figon was working...
Combat or Conference. Johnson added that "our decision to stand firm has been matched by our desire for peace" -at which point, many listeners thought that they would hear some news about the peace mission. The President kept mum, but in pursuit of that mission, Vice President Hubert Humphrey last week talked with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman conferred with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed...
...erase "right to work" provisions from the Taft-Hartley Act. In his State of the Union message, President Johnson felt obliged to ask for new legislation to prevent similar strikes. ≫ The Johnson Administration seemed preoccupied with an attempt to cause Mayor Lindsay political embarrassment. It remained largely mum during the strike, did not denounce the union's fatuous demands, then piously reproved Lindsay for a settlement that "violated" federal wage-price guidelines...
...private planners, known as the Cambridge Committee for the Inner Belt, has refined these plans and charged that the original DPW designs were drawn so as to make them unacceptable. Their new plans take less land, fewer jobs, and fewer homes (only 150, the committee claims). M.I.T. has remained mum on the Inner Belt; it has not made (nor has anyone else attempted to make) an objective analysis of the disruption the noise and vibrations from a large highway would have on experiments. Clearly, the extent of this disruption--and whether there are ways to limit or eliminate it--should...
Chuck F. Irwin '66, known "pusher" and undergraduate manager of the football team was predictably mum about the affair when contacted yesterday. He would only say that the buttons are being distributed by "a group of enthusiastic individual undergraduates. I started them with the football team and they've proved so infectious that distribution spread...