Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disguised Farmers. Each weekend the De Gaulles go to their country retreat. The regularity of these visits is an invitation to assassins, and two attempts on the President's life have been made on the route between Paris and Colombey. De Gaulle is still the despair of his security staff. His personal bodyguard consists of only two "gorillas," whose shoulders seem to slope down from their ears. But dark blue police vans are positioned on side streets around the Elysée Palace, and apartments above the chic shops along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore facing the palace...
...enemy advances, retreat; if he halts, harass; if he retreats, attack." Thus Mao Tse-tung advised Communist revolutionaries, and in South Viet Nam last week the Red Viet Cong scrupulously followed Mao's injunctions-with both success and failure...
...even venturing as far west as Philadelphia. In eight months there, as editor of the Evening Public Ledger (now defunct), he found nothing of value, he said, but an all-night delicatessen. He went back to the homestead in Lampasas County, Texas. There, on 300 acres renamed Black Sheep Retreat, he farmed, designed a pigsty, wrote many articles and more books. For a visitor, he scribbled a hasty creed: "Clean copy. Hard work. Better to know the truth than not. Avoid dullness. Young newspapermen are the best people on earth...
Khrushchev's new retreat could, from a U.S. viewpoint, only be called progress. But there remained room for much more progress. Still in Cuba were Russian nationals-and for the first time, Kennedy described them as "ground combat units." More importantly, when Kennedy had first announced his quarantine of Cuba, he made it perfectly plain that on-site inspection was the only way to make sure that Soviet missiles had really been removed. But Castro, despite Khrushchev's pledge to let U.N. inspectors into Cuba, remained obdurate. Therefore, said Kennedy at his press conference, the U.S., even while...
...Moslems seem to be aware that U.S. surplus food, though little publicized, is supplying three-quarters of the daily diet for 3,000,000 Algerians. As in other new African countries, the people are also discovering that Communist-bloc aid is mostly window dressing; since Khrushchev's hasty retreat from Cuba, they have become even more leary of Soviet attempts to make Ben Bella the Castro of Africa. Whatever the subject under discussion, Algerians often ask: "What is reality?" A government official in Algiers asked the question last week, but did not answer. Instead, he pointed...