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Furthermore, Betancourt took his military chiefs into his political confidence. They were consulted on opposition to Castro, petroleum policy and other executive decisions. When his regime was subjected to terrorist attacks and a rightist assassination plot, the armed forces backed him all the way. The military's finest hour came in the 1962 uprising of a small group of marines and Red-led civilians at the Puerto Cabello naval base. The air force mounted blazing air attacks, and loyal troops crushed the rebels in vicious street fighting that cost 300 casualties...
...President gave Dallas' afternoon paper, the Times Herald, a big advantage over the Dallas Morning News - and the Times Herald was ready to put that advantage to good use. The copy deadline had been pushed up 45 minutes, to 1:15. JFK INVADES CONSERVATIVE DALLAS LEVELS BLAST AT RIGHTIST CRITICS, read the prepared headlines. Advance stories were already in type, one on the security measures surrounding the visit, another on the visit itself, lacking only a few lead paragraphs. At Dallas' police station, alert for any unexpected excitement, Times Herald Reporter George Carter sat by the police radio...
...this broad program, past Conservative policies seem a bit pallid. Christine Keeler is a symbol of Tory difficulties that are more than skin deep. After an impressive electoral mandate in 1959, Macmillan's government immediately began to stumble. His policy of independence for British possessions in Africa alienated rightist members of his party. Then the U-2 debacle obliterated his hopes for a British inspired Soviet-American detente, and the election of John F. Kennedy encouraged the press to portray him as the walrus-like vestige of a less-enlightened age. Finally, within the last year, the Tories have been...
...matter whom the convention nominates, that man can be sure of my fervent support." He did, however, utter an implicit warning against Goldwater's becoming too closely associated with the wayway right. Said Eisenhower: "I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road." Even more, he said, he despises the people who "go to the gutter on either the right or the left, and hurl rocks at those in the center...
...arrangement is falling apart. Reason: the Communists are simply ignoring the truce, as well as their longtime alliance with Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma, and are seeking to wrest control of the vital Plain of Jars in central Laos from neutralist troops. Though at first suspicious of the neutralist regime, Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan sent four battalions to help it. Despite such assistance, the neutralist forces under General Kong Le have only one strategic position left on the plain - Phou Theneng mountain and its foothills. Last week the Communist Pathet Lao opened a heavy artillery barrage on Kong...