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...least-and Hanoi has made the second academic. More important is the fact that the leaders of the two governments met face to face for the first time and came to understand their mutual aims. Most U.S. officials were convinced that while past Vietnamese leaders might have given short shrift to the social and political transformation of their country, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky fully understands the necessity for such a program. "We are dedicated to the eradication of social injustice among our people," said Ky. "We must bring about a true social revolution...
...escalation of the war in neighboring Viet Nam. U.S. jets, striking out of Thailand, Danang and the Gulf of Tonkin at supply routes from the north, have kept the Pathet Lao pinned down. Since North Viet Nam considers Laos a sideshow anyhow, the Laotian Communists recently have had short shrift in supplies from Hanoi...
...observer puts it, "Russia is a dictatorship without a dictator now," and the feeling persists that the team system cannot work indefinitely. The old conflicts between the metal-eaters and the goulash-givers surely remain, and the military is hardly likely to be ecstatic over the shorter shrift it seems to be getting these days. But such power struggles as may be taking place are invisible, so carefully does the Kremlin balance out podium seats, portrait placements, prestige titles and foreign travel among the top Communists...
...left in Parliament for instant negotiations, is adamant about supporting Washington's Southeast Asian policy, while De Gaulle wants negotiations as soon as possible. As a result, explained Wilson afterwards, "we did not waste a lot of time arguing about it." The Common Market got even shorter shrift, since Wilson and the Labor Party want no part of British membership in the Six as things now stand...
Poor old Euripides shuddered in his urn again last night while a curiously halting and pigeon-toed bevy of our too-familiar Loebsters murdered Aegisthus, Clytemnestra and his play as well. He should be used to short shrift by now, though, after centuries of being mistranslated, misplayed and misunderstood...