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...fall of 1969 and the White House staff had a problem. During one 30-day period, President Nixon had bombarded his aides with 21 separate memos on unfavorable press coverage of his Administration. His demands that subordinates somehow quell offending journalists and generate more pleasing reportage and commentary set off a frantic scramble. In a memo to H.R. Haldeman, Jeb Stuart Magruder complained that "this continual daily attempt to get the media" was "very unfruitful and wasteful of our time." Magruder had a better plan...
...general, who was then commander of the Santiago garrison, had been asked by President Allende to help quell disorders in the province, and Chileans were not used to hearing threats from their generals. After a brief state of emergency the situation was resolved without bloodshed, and Pinochet went back to his barracks. But not, as it turned out, to stay. Named commander in chief of the army only three weeks ago, the powerfully built infantry officer, 57, last week presided over the coup as head of a four-man military junta...
...sudden, the big question for Washington's economic policymakers is not how to slow down a runaway boom, but whether the boom has already run out of gas. Demand is tapering off even more rapidly than the policymakers think is necessary to quell inflation. Second-quarter figures, released last week, show the following...
...some time or another because of an eminent scholar who happened to be an incompetent chairman. The Romance Languages Department back in the fifties carried this tendency to its absurd conclusion when it stopped running altogether, and McGeorge Bundy stepped in to take over the department and quell its disputes...
...protesters. Two weeks ago, New Delhi imposed "President's rule" over the state, a procedure by which the federal government temporarily assumes control of state affairs. But the action failed to stem the tide of dissent, and last week Indian troops were rushed into the area to quell disorders...