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Hilltop Hopping. The diplomatic shadowboxing was matched by a battlefield standoff, as each side sought a tactical advantage in anticipation of a showdown. South Vietnamese troops briefly occupied Tchepone, 25 miles inside Laos and once described as the "throat" of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Then they pulled back from the deserted town to occupy part of the nearby valley floor and some coyly named fire bases in the surrounding hills ("Sophia," "Liz" and "Lollo" for Actresses Loren, Taylor and Lollobrigida). Hilltop hopping by helicopter, other ARVN forces sought to cut off important enemy supply routes, chiefly Route...
Official scoring for the title matches was not made public but after the first round of the Farneti-O'Neal bout. Lamar signaled referee Dick Flaherty to award no points for the round. After the standoff in the first round. Farnetli started to slip in his left jab and began to show an advantage in quickness...
Because of the force of De Gaulle's imposing personality and keen insight, France came to wield disproportionate power (in 1959. it had a medium-size population of 47 million and a G.N.P. of $48.6 billion). He recognized earlier than most that the nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Russia afforded other countries considerable room for maneuver. While enjoying the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, he attacked American economic penetration of Europe, and unsuccessfully sought to undermine American business expansion by trying to persuade other countries to reject the dollar in favor of a return to the gold...
WHEN the biggest and costliest strike in more than a decade ended last week, neither side was particularly overjoyed by the outcome. After 58 days of standoff, leaders of the United Auto Workers and General Motors agreed on a new contract that the company says is inflationary. The union's hefty wage gain was less than the auto workers had hoped for, but they got more in fringe benefits than the U.A.W. leadership could have expected. If the strikers ratify the national contract this week, as is likely, and some sticky local issues are settled in the plants...
...side wants to, but keep your cool. Most Communists at the negotiating level are relatively sophisticated politically and will respect a candid explanation of a Western country's position. Don't expect them to agree with you. The best you can hope for is a good-humored standoff...