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...exercise purposes, Iran was called "Freeland" and, rather inappropriately, considering the conditions that prevail over much of well-refrigerated Russia, the invading forces were dubbed "Sun-land." But since Iran shares 1,500 miles of its northern border with Russia, the name did not fool anyone. Staged in cooperation with the mideast CENTO military alliance and planned by U.S. General Paul Adams' Tampa-based MEAFSA command (see box), the war games were clearly designed to buck up a nervous U.S. ally in whom the U.S. has invested one-half billion dollars in military assistance. Said one U.S. State Department...
Said he: "The lobbies, halls and galleries of the legislature are jammed with liquor lobbyists presenting their special interests. The issues before the legislature are plain: shall the special interests of the few prevail over those of all the people? Shall the seedbeds of corruption remain or be uprooted? Shall public confidence in the greatness and integrity of New York State government be preserved? The people are watching...
...Senate Door. After the final vote, President Johnson praised the House for its action. "Now," he said, "the task is for the Senate. I hope the same spirit of nonpartisanship will prevail there...
This stirring supports De Gaulle's long-held view that national ambitions invariably prevail over ideologies. "No ordeal changes the nature of man," De Gaulle puts it, "and no crisis changes the nature of states." He argues that the interests of the Czechs, Poles, Bulgarians, and even the Russians, are essentially European and therefore common with France. A top Gaullist insists, "When the time for a real détente comes, it is not America that can speak to Eastern Europe. Western Europe can. Look at the Poles! They're still frightened to death of the Germans...
...year struggle to dissolve the now-extinct Central African Federation, in which Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were reluctant partners with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia. Zambia, as Northern Rhodesia will be called after independence, will be a multiracial society in which, promises Kaunda, "the rule of law shall prevail and no individual is going to be victimized because of his country of origin...