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...took the call. Unbelieving and upset, she phoned Jenkins in his office. Within minutes, a distraught Jenkins got in touch with Lawyer Abe Fortas,* an old Lyndon crony, and told him almost hysterically that he was in "real trouble." Fortas called Fellow Lawyer Clark Clifford, a top trouble-shooter in the Truman, Kennedy and Johnson Administrations...
...Shooter Gary Anderson added the eighth U.S. gold medal with a world record in three-position rifle shooting...
ToughTalk. Lower-echelon officials took up the cry. A government declaration urged that the war be pressed "until total victory liberates our whole national territory." Toughest talk of all came from Khanh's air force commander, mustachioed Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, who packs a bone-handled six-shooter in a Texas-style holster. At a news conference, Ky embarrassed his U.S. advisers by openly confirming that for three years South Vietnamese sabotage teams have been slipping into the north on the ground and by air. "I myself dropped special-forces units into North Viet Nam," boasted Ky. Actually...
...Steve Smith, the Kennedy family's political and financial trouble-shooter in New York, was soliciting in Manhattan...
Finland's Ambassador to Sweden, Tuomioja (pronounced Twoo-mee-o-ya) has previously done U.N. jobs as an administrator and trouble-shooter in Laos, one of the few places in the world that can match the complexity of Cypriot politics...