Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't have any enemies," says one of the President's aides. "He's just too nice a guy. He walks into the room, and you just instantly like him. Even people who disagree with him?and I'm one?think he's a charming character." There was reason enough to believe that he and Pat Moynihan, head of the President's Council for Urban Affairs, would fight for dominance in the domestic sphere. Both extremely strong-willed men, they have instead developed a close rapport. "Bob Finch," says Moynihan, his Irish speaking, "is an absolutely sweet...
Enemy Within. The lesson of Lebanon could not be lost on other Arab leaders, who increasingly have reason to view the fedayeen as an enemy within. When Jordan's King Hussein outlined a six-point peace plan during his visit to Washington three weeks ago, and suggested that it would also be acceptable to the Palestinians, five fedayeen groups issued a joint statement in Beirut repudiating every point...
Whatever long-run effect the Soviet pressure may have on Arab governments, it has dented neither the belligerence nor the armory of the fedayeen. One reason is that they have another source of guns, mines and ammunition from an increasingly important friend: China. Peking is taking full advantage of the opportunity to make trouble simultaneously for both the U.S. and Russia in the Middle East...
When solicitous old friends asked Manuel Cortés Quero, 63, how he was feeling, he replied: "These shoes are killing me." With good reason. For the past 30 years Cortés has been shoeless, padding around in carpet slippers in an upstairs room of his house in Mijas, above the seaport of Málaga. His self-imposed imprisonment ended last week when Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered an amnesty for all survivors of the losing Republican side in the Spanish Civil War of three decades...
...view from North Mountain is optimistic-until the visitor spots the signs warning: "Photography Prohibited." The reason? The mountain's northern slopes, facing the Demilitarized Zone 25 miles away, are pockmarked with carefully camouflaged bunkers and lookout posts. Should the North Koreans break through at the border once more as they did in 1950, North Mountain would be part of Seoul's last line of defense...