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...military police carted Amri and 15 of his most important officials off to military hospitals for "medical treatment." With Yemen's government thus quarantined in Cairo, Sallal proclaimed a new one in San'a, taking over the premiership as well as the presidency, and forming a Cabinet nearer to Nasser's desires. Sallal then took to the San'a radio to warn that the "traitors and deviationists" who had "led a campaign of doubt and suspicion between the U.A.R. and Yemen" would be brought to trial...
...them on German soil, no matter how much he wanted to keep a watch on the Rhine. "There can be no throwback to an occupation status," Erhard declared. Then, as De Gaulle's July 1 deadline for France's NATO withdrawal began to creep nearer, Erhard allowed technical experts in Paris to negotiate a "temporary" agreement under which the French troops might stay in Germany for the time being. Last week, as De Gaulle called in Bonn for a ten-hour visit under the terms of the 1963 Franco-German agreement (which requires biannual meetings...
...sick because he was a Congregationalist. Congregationalists are fat and sick, I am sure, in about the same proportion as members of any other religious group. However, if your readers infer that Casper became a superior golfer because he was first a Congregationalist, they may be nearer the truth. Congregationalists are often fine golfers, as I can attest on many a sunny Sunday morning...
...mediating session, held up all negotiations overnight because Northwest had warned its strikers in Tokyo that they must now pay rent in advance for their company-owned quarters. At week's end, Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds, the chief mediator, reported that the settlement was "no nearer than a week...
Diplomatically, Klein saw the decision to drop the bomb as a wrong one. He cited the lesson of the Korean War where we leveled the North without moving our opponents any nearer to the peace table. As for the timing of the escalation, Klein speculated that it was a domestic move on Johnson's behalf, and that the President feels this is the "tidy war" the Gallup Polls favor...