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...Martin's Federal Reserve Board, and through it U.S. bankers, to crimp the nation's credit. The irony is that Johnson's party lost heavily in the elections anyway, and the President himself forfeited much of the faith of businessmen, who had earlier been his staunchest allies...
Perhaps most of all, West Germans have been frustrated by their enigmatic relationship with the U.S., under whose secure protection they achieved their postwar reconstruction. West Germany has certainly been the U.S.'s staunchest ally in Europe, but of late it has been feeling neglected and hurt. In German eyes, the U.S. often seems far more anxious to conclude a détente with the Soviets than it is to nurture a special relationship with Bonn. Shocked that the U.S. did nothing to prevent the erection of the Berlin Wall, Germans suspect that few, if any, of their allies really care...
...visit was poorly received, and says that "even Newark's Democratic Mayor Hugh Addonizio had left the scene before the presidential motorcade pulled away, L.B.J. had badly mispronounced his name." In fact, the President's reception amazed all except those of us proud to be among his staunchest supporters. Estimates of the crowd ranged from the G.O.P.'s 30,000 to the police's 50,000 and the Democrats' 70,000. At the end of his talk, Johnson was mobbed by well-wishers. It took his car 22 minutes, despite the best efforts of police...
Asian Democracy. Last week, 65 years after the slaughter on Samar, Filipinos and Americans were the staunchest of Asian allies. Descendants of the bolomen?1,200 soldiers from the Philippine Civic Action Group?were setting up camp beside U.S. troops in the South Vietnamese jungles of Tay Ninh. American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over...
Botswana's strongest asset is its first president, Sir Seretse Khama, 45, a burly, blueblooded Oxonian who has become one of Africa's staunchest advo cates of racial harmony. Eighteen years ago in London, Seretse cast away his paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. The marriage embarrassed both Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, and the Labor government of Clement Attlee, which hustled Seretse into an exile that lasted eight years...