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Those are the front-line supplicants, but many others constantly seek to infiltrate the presidential stronghold. They include state governors and city mayors, and the senior national and state political leaders of the President's party. After them comes a helter-skelter militia of citizens, often sniping at one another, enemies of the President as well as friends: banker, lawyer, merchant, chief, cleric, doctor, scholar, journalist, student, housewife. Some advance to plead a cause, others to extol, still others to criticize and fix blame...
...Communist-infested zone called "the Fishhook." Their mission: a strike at the Communist high command hidden in groups of heavy concrete bunkers at several points beyond the border. Farther south, troops of the South Vietnamese army (ARVN), aided by U.S. advisers, helicopters and medical teams, swept into another Communist stronghold known as "the Parrot's Beak," located only 35 miles from Saigon. U.S. planes, meanwhile, began bombing the three other sanctuaries. By week's end the two ground forces reported a combined enemy death toll of 398; they suffered at least eight killed, 'including five Americans...
...election day, Yarborough was unable to rally enough of his traditional support to overcome the electorate's disinterest and to offset the votes of Republicans who crossed party lines to vote for Bentsen. Yarborough's East Texas stronghold deserted him, mainly over the Carswell issue. While Yarborough's friends stayed home, his enemies did not. Thus, the Democrats were deprived of their best chance to defeat the G.O.P.'s Bush next fall...
...Quebec, where unemployment last month was 2.5% higher than the Canadian average of 6.7%, Bourassa's pledge evoked great response: the town of Trois Rivières, a National Union stronghold where 15% of the work force is unemployed, elected its first Liberal in history. If Bourassa fails to deliver on his promises, however, the separatists would undoubtedly revive their claims that Quebeckers can only hope to achieve a better life once they are freed from the domination of Canada's English-speaking majority...
...British magazine recently described Annenberg's manner as "that authentic transatlantic style which one might call folk-baroque, with the native bonhomie and verbal felicity of W. C. Fields." His phrases have an engraved quality. Asked how he liked London, for example, he replied: "I consider it a stronghold of dignified living." On his diplomatic role: "I am here to be the instrument of American policy abroad." His most famous line burbled up during a BBC documentary on the Royal Family. When the Queen asked about his housing arrangements, Annenberg answered: "We are in the ambassadorial residence, subject...