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...Last Straw. Among those Bay of Pigs prisoners was Miro Cardona's son Pepito. As for Miro himself, he was a staunch defender of U.S. policy toward Cuba. At the time of the Bay of Pigs, he publicly denied that the U.S. had played any part in the invasion, at the same time fought off bitter exile claims that Kennedy had let them down. Miro's defense of the U.S. cost him dearly among the exiles, many of whom came to consider him a self-seeking apologist for the Kennedy Administration...
Wilson's 144-103 victory was a crushing blow to his chief rival, comradely George Brown, 48, a staunch trade unionist and ex-truck driver, who as acting party leader since the death last month of Hugh Gaitskell, had every reason to believe that he would inherit the mantle of leadership. But when the voting began last week, it was George Brown's old friends among Labor's trade unionists who abandoned him first. Some opposed his pro-Common Market views; others among Labor's intellectual center and right flinched at the thought of a working...
Dodd's proposal will encounter difficulty in reaching the floor of the Senate. As is tax measure it must pass through the Finance Committee, chaired by Sen. Harry Byrd (D-Va.), a staunch foe of both tax cuts and aid to education...
When the delegates emerged from the meeting at midnight. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, a staunch supporter of Britain, grunted. "We made only linguistic progress.'' A French delegate lightly added. "If we reach an agreement, it will be based on a misunderstanding.'' On Tuesday morning. U.S. Ambassador John Tuthill hurried around to the delegations to deliver a last-minute warning from President Kennedy, pointing out the grave consequences of a breakdown in the negotiations. The Six reconvened at noon to hear the West German proposal that was intended to save face for everyone...
...torn between two leading contenders who personify the warring extremes within the party that took Hugh Gaitskell seven turbulent years to pacify. Top right-wing candidate is Deputy Leader George Brown, an earthy, onetime errand boy who infuriates leftist intellectuals by addressing them as "brother." Brown, 48, is a staunch antiCommunist, a firm believer in the Western alliance, and, until Gaitskell committed the party to an anti-European line, was a vigorous advocate of British membership in the Common Market...