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Wilson is obviously aware of the futility of his sanctions. And yet he has little choice but to stick with them. He rejects the use of armed force, partly because it would be political suicide for his Labor Party at home. He is afraid to plug the holes in his economic blockade by extending the sanctions to South Africa, whose gold is a prop for the sagging British pound. At the same time, Wilson wants desperately to win in Rhodesia. He is convinced, as are many members of his government, that unless Britain can prove its good intentions, the Commonwealth...
...flowed some unusual undercurrents. Charlie was trained to use guns as soon as he was old enough to hold them?and so were his brothers. "I'm a fanatic about guns," says his father, Charles A., 47. "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns." Charlie could plug a squirrel in the eye by the time he was 16, and in the Marine Corps he scored 215 points out of a possible 250, winning a rating as a sharpshooter, second only to expert. In the Marines, though, he also got busted from corporal to private and sentenced...
Though the strike caught the airlines at the seasonal peak of their biggest year ever, they still managed to plug a good many of the gaps in service to 231 cities. Pan American, for example, substituted cramped thrift-class seats for spacious first-class accommodations on all its New York-San Juan flights so as to squeeze aboard 200 more people a day each way. American halved service between New York, Syracuse and Rochester in order to add nine flights a day between New York, Cleveland and Washington. Mohawk Airlines stepped up its schedules where American cut back...
...Pulpit Plugs. Greatest test of Daley's strength was another, more ambitious bond issue for $195 million to finance such brick-and-mortar improvements as rapid-transit extensions, street and alley lighting, and 63 miles of new sewers. As the city-hall machine moved into overdrive, bank depositors found among their canceled checks flyers urging a yes vote, police and firemen trod sidewalks distributing literature, and Chicago's Roman Catholic Archbishop John P. Cody resorted to the pulpit to plug the measure. Result: the bonds passed by a 2-to-1 margin...
...some 8,000 miles away. American officers smoothly engineered the switch from their status as advisers to a native army to that of members of an American army in the field. The original concept of the use of American troops to guard enclaves of vital government real estate and plug the holes in Vietnamese defenses, reacting only when the Vietnamese had found and fixed the enemy, was soon expanded. The Americans were out on their own, looking for kills...