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Sir: Surely President Johnson is kidding when he says he can't understand why the Communists won't "agree to move from the battlefield to the conference table." Why should they come to the conference table when they have nothing to negotiate? If and when they get tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1966 | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

The pride of many a small-budget nation's air force is a snoop-nosed, 1,000-m.p.h. whizbang called the F-5 Freedom Fighter. A flight of Philippine F-5s snapped into escort positions around Air Force One when President Johnson took off on the Manila-to-Bangkok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Riding the Little Tiger | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Out with the Silver Spoon. Son ot a Stavanger shipowner who started out in the days of sail, Bergesen spent 20 years dutifully propping to take over the family firm. Then, in 1935, he struck out on his own: his father, then 72, seemed unwilling to retire -ever. Bergesen bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Norway: Surge to the Sea | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Like Father. Envious competitors consider Bergesen aloof and insufferably vain, not the least for his habit of walking the three miles from his suburban home to his Oslo office each morning, while a chauffeured limousine trails behind. Nine years ago, the rivals got an unexpected recruit, when his son Berge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Norway: Surge to the Sea | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Leader of the coup attempt was Brigadier General Thao Ma, the volatile young (32) commander of the Laotian air force. Although he washed out of a French air force pilots' school and flunked his international-transport pilot's test, Ma has logged something like 4,000 hours in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Just a Little Rebellion | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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