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...chief negotiator, stocky ex-Guerrilla Belkacem Krim, was clearly taken aback. "We do not agree at all. Not at all. This is a unilateral move," he spluttered. Krim proposed that "working sessions" continue the following day. But De Gaulle was adamant; he plainly wanted to let the Algerians stew for awhile. Perhaps, suggested Joxe, everyone might get together again in ten to 15 days, but the tone of his farewell words as he flew off to Paris was clear enough: don't call us, we'll call...
Back in hot water with Republicans howling for his head, controversial Stew Udall called in the press, after first carefully stationing at his side venerable Poet Robert Frost, his luncheon guest, as a sort of mute character witness. Udall angrily denied that he had meant to bludgeon money from the oil and gasmen. He admitted that he was a good friend of Evans', an official of Asiatic Petroleum Co., an affiliate of the Royal Dutch Shell group. But, said Udall, all that he had done was to tell Evans casually that he hoped...
Even his kid brother was mad at Interior Secretary Stew Udall last week (see above). Running against Republican Mac C. Matheson, 43, for Stew's old Second District congressional seat, Democratic Lawyer Morris K. ("Mo") Udall, 38, found that his big brother was costing him votes. As last week's election approached, Republicans and Democrats alike were grumbling about Stew Udall's apparent attempt to shift part of the blame for Cuba to the Eisenhower Administration; more fuss was raised by his decision at Interior to dispossess farmers who had been squatting for years along the Colorado...
...conference, Udall made no secret of his belief that his brother had hurt him: "I had counted on winning Yuma County. I lost it." In defeat, Mac Matheson got off the best shot of the campaign. "Congratulations, Mo," he wired the new Congressman. "You came through in spite of Stew...
...more conservative than his big brother (Mo opposes farm supports, has mild reservations about federal aid to education), he seems to be a wild-eyed New Frontiersman compared with Mac Matheson, a former radio announcer who is now part owner of some Muzak franchises and who lost to Stew Udall last year. Devoted to Goldwater, Matheson strongly opposes federal aid to education, minimum wage legislation and the welfare state. Says he: "People are being offered a mess of welfare pottage in exchange for their American birthright...