Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Photographers' flashbulbs and the mirrors inside the Ambassador Hotel-and four Tom Collinses-acted with hypnotic power, Diamond testified. Fuzzy with drink, Sirhan wandered in a trance until he encountered Kennedy in a serving pantry. "Only this time it was for real," said Diamond. "This time there was only the loaded gun." It was, he admitted, a "preposterous story, unlikely and incredible." It was also, Diamond insisted, what really happened...
PAKISTAN'S President Mohammed Ayub Khan might well embrace that melancholy observation as his political epitaph. He had promised to renounce power on the expiration of his presidential term next year, and meanwhile to restore parliamentary democracy to his disturbed land. Far from calming the civil disorders racking Pakistan, his renunciation intensified the dissensions threatening to tear apart the fragile unity of East and West Pakistan, and led to still more bloody rioting. Last week, with the disruption beyond his control, Ayub abruptly departed, turning over to the army the world's fifth most populous nation. His voice...
Talking Points. As the preconference meetings continued, details of the U.S. "talking points" began to appear. Perhaps the most important of the points would be an effort to win full four-power agreement on the implementation of the November 1967 Security Council resolution, which postulated mutual recognition of sovereignty and Israeli withdrawal from areas conquered in the Six-Day War. Israel, according to the latest U.S. suggestion, would retain Syria's Gobn Heights and Arab Jerusalem, although Jordan would have certain rights in its former sector. The U.S. also envisages the following...
...Communist countries of Asia, the Soviets present a remarkably bourgeois face. Aware that China's subversive tactics have given Communism a bad name among Asian governments, the Russians play down politics, deal directly and frankly with the regime in power, and base their appeal chiefly on the offer of trade and cultural ties...
Mabley was more outraged when eight officers were indicted by a federal grand jury, five of them for attacking newsmen. He complained that "the enormous power of the Federal Government is being wheeled out against them, and their employer, the government of the City of Chicago, has turned its back on them." By contrast, he predicted, "tens of thousands of radicals will rally behind" the eight demonstrators also indicted. After the radicals stage "huge demonstrations, go on television with their attacks on the government and the courts," Mabley said, they may raise as much as $200,000. He pleaded...