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Traub has been especially aggressive in dispatching Bloomingdale's officials???first himself, later subordinates?to visit foreign manufacturers and persuade them to design goods specifically for Bloomingdale's. The store was the first to feature merchandise from Communist China (see box previous page). Bloomingdale's two years ago persuaded Philippine craftsmen to design rattan furniture to its specifications, but other retailers began selling copies. So this year the store requested a cinnabar finish or a glass-rattan combination...
Privately, however, Pentagon officials???including Weyand himself, according to some reports?were deeply pessimistic about South Viet Nam's ability to defend what remains of its territory. True, the government has the equivalent of seven divisions within a 50-mile radius of Saigon, including the 4,000 men of the airborne division that moved down from Danang two weeks ago; there are also some 175,000 popular-force and regional-force soldiers, but Saigon's combat-ready troops are outnumbered by the North Vietnamese forces that have been massing in the capital military region over the past several weeks. Small...
...Magruder and Mitchell and more people preparing to talk, plans to contain the scandal are breaking down. In a conversation laced with incriminating confessions, the President and his top aides discuss how the Justice Department investigation might be cut off at the level of the Nixon re-election committee officials???notably Mitchell and Magruder?rather than reaching into the White House. Their...
...past several weeks, he had been giving British intelligence a complete rundown on local Soviet espionage operations. His revelations prompted the British government two weeks ago to carry out the most drastic action ever undertaken in the West against Soviet spies: the expulsion of 105 diplomats and other officials???nearly 20% of the 550 Russian officials based in Britain...
...Soviets responded with a campaign that mounted in intensity as the week wore on. As some of the expelled officials???who included nine of the embassy's eleven counselors and five of its twelve first secretaries?began crating furniture and canceling milk deliveries, the Kremlin launched a press campaign. Pravda accused London of "witch hunting" and declared that British intelligence uses British businessmen, tourists, journalists and scientists in the Soviet Union to carry out its "sinister aims." In Moscow, Kim Philby, the Briton who defected to the U.S.S.R. in 1963, named 20 British diplomats as agents for British intelligence, mainly...