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...only escape from "the noose the people are preparing for you." Instead of decamping, King Hussein last week closed his border against Syrian arms and agents, toured the old city of Jerusalem, Al Birah and Ramallah, where he chatted with army officers and inspected troops in their sandbag dugouts facing the Israeli positions along the frontier. In his determination to stay in power, Hussein jeered at Israel, partly to pacify the Palestinian Arabs, who make up two-thirds of his 1,800,000 subjects, partly because Israel's support for Jordan independence is a political embarrassment...
...article would not have caused much of a ripple. But in Washington last week, pundits stacked theory upon theory-and the cartoonists had not had such juicy fun in months. It was promptly and widely assumed that Kennedy himself had instigated the accusation, that the President was trying to sandbag Stevenson out of the U.N. That so much importance would be attached to a magazine article was in part an outgrowth of the somewhat bizarre and distorted atmosphere that prevails in Washington. No other Administration has so single-mindedly followed the proposition that "news is a weapon" (see PRESS...
...thump of dynamite blasting foxholes into the coral starts at dawn these days at Guantánamo Naval Base. All day newly arrived marines sweat and swear as they sandbag gun emplacements, communications lines and antitank positions...
...ambulance and the sandbag...
...Behind sandbag barricades and rifle-toting guards, Haiti's strong-willed President Francois Duvalier lay last week in his white palace, seriously ill of a heart attack. Out of fear that the truth would embolden opposition elements to start trouble, his aides stuck to a diagnosis of "grippe," but only succeeded in starting dangerous rumors-that Duvalier was paralyzed, was already dead, or had left the country. Superstitious blacks in the Port-au-Prince slums whispered that the President's ouangas (voodoo charms) had lost their power...