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...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's Matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bullring...
...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bull ring...
...seems certain that U.S. withdrawal or a Communist victory could lead only to a unified Communist government under Ho Chi Minh. For if the Viet Cong were once isolated peasant revolutionaries, they now seem to be a substantial army controlled by Hanoi. Their weapons and communication equipment are modern. Both government and newspaper reports claim that these supplies are now being shipped from the North. And it is difficult to believe that the North Vietnamese would commit two army divisions now fighting in the South to a command it does not control...
...burning-eyed youths who set fire to their draft cards and urge others to do the same? These interpositionists who stand on railroad tracks to block U.S. troop trains? These professors who insist that the war in Viet Nam is no more than the struggle of the peace-loving peasant to win the national independence and personal free dom denied him by U.S. intervention? What are they? Are they pacifists in any real meaning of the word? Are they malingerers, humanists, enemy agents, internationalists? Are they valuable dissenters in the sense that democracy not only allows but requires...
Suleyman Demirel, 41, is a hardheaded peasant's son, a construction engineer who once worked with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, later amassed a private fortune as an Ankara contractor. He inherited the party and prestige of Turkey's slain strongman, Adnan Menderes, and adroitly harnessed the demirkirat, or iron grey horse, which was the symbol of Menderes' Democratic Party, for his own Justice Party...