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Containment by "X." Few diplomats have ever drawn on so rich a background in international affairs. From the time he joined the Foreign Service, after graduating from Princeton in 1925, Kennan shuttled from one sensitive crisis point to another. In 1933, he helped reopen the American embassy in Moscow, stayed on through the savage purges that soon followed and thus received, as he writes, "a liberal education in the horrors of Stalinism." He arrived in Prague on Sept. 29, 1938, the day of the Munich Conference. He was in Berlin from 1939 until Pearl Harbor, when the Nazis interned...
Management of Moslem religious affairs is gradually being handed back to the wakf religious trust committees. And the Bank of Israel has scored a financial coup by persuading the Bank of Jordan to release funds frozen in Amman so that the West Bank's shuttered banks can reopen...
...French sports shirts, with a familiar-looking reptile embroidered on them, sell exceedingly well. Last year the Paris-based firm of Chemise Lacoste sold 1,700,000 of the shirts, 50% in France and the remainder in the crocodile-alligator world beyond. This month, as Lacoste's factories reopen after a vacation layoff, the order backlog has reached 200,000, and Chemise Lacoste has also gotten an unexpected bonus. Catherine Lacoste, 22-year-old daughter of Founder Rene Lacoste, last month outplayed the pros and, as an amateur, won the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament...
Albert Shanker, who heads the 49,000- member teachers' union, said yesterday that this trio was "not equipped" to do the job and that their selection "greatly increases the possibility that schools will not reopen on Sept...
...late 1966, Premier Ky promised to reopen the waterway no later than May 31. In a determined effort to make good, he sent an army battalion and six 40-man rural-development teams into hamlets along the canal to combat Viet Cong influence. The V.C. countered by murdering local officials, and Ky failed to make his May deadline: parts of the canal are still intermittently under V.C. control...