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Nothing but Foam. Gaullists argue that France's President needs powers commensurate with those of his U.S. counterpart. In fact, the French constitution, the 15th since the Revolution, gives De Gaulle far more; it contains few of the checks and balances that safeguard U.S. freedoms. His power of dissolution is a mighty club over the legislature. France has no independent judiciary empowered to reject unconstitutional measures. Moreover, the President can bypass a balky Assembly at will by taking controversial issues to the people; he has already used the referendum seven times. While De Gaulle calls this process "direct democracy...
...prevailing theory now is that the Chinese had less ambitious aims to begin with: to take the high ground and the key military passes away from the Indians, and to finally establish, once and for all, Chinese control of the Aksai Chin plateau in Ladakh, so as to safeguard the vital military roads to Sinkiang province. The Chinese may have been unprepared to exploit the almost total collapse of India's armed forces and may even have been surprised by their swift success. On this reading, the terms of the Chinese cease-fire offer become intelligible...
...Jupiter IRBM bases in Turkey were constructed in 1960-61, not clandestinely but only after a publicly announced agreement between the U.S. and Turkey. The purpose of the U.S. bases was not to blackmail Russia but to strengthen the defense system of NATO, which had been created as a safeguard against Russian aggression. As a member of NATO, Turkey welcomed the bases as a contribution to her own defense...
...kind that will cause any changes. After several weeks of negotiating with a group example, town's Negro leaders, for example, they recommended to the City Council that a bi-racial council be established to discuss possibilities for fuller Negro employment. The suggestion had a double edged safeguard. If the City Council were rash enough to act upon it--which seemed to the Chamber highly unlikely--the Council would be a do-nothing organization, composed of Negro Uncle Toms and white conservatives...
Size alone is no safeguard against the profit squeeze of the sluggish 1960s. This is the key message of FORTUNE'S eighth annual directory of the nation's 500 biggest industrial corporations. Though overall the companies on FORTUNE'S 1961 list boosted their sales 2.2% to a record $209 billion, their average after-tax profits on invested capital slid from 9.1% in 1960 to 8.3% last year...