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...politics has traditionally begun and ended within the confines of Saigon, showing little concern with roots in the countryside. Ministers and military administrators tended to run their departments in the same way?and were certainly not encouraged to venture far from home during the blurry succession of military-backed strongmen who held power before Thieu. As a result, there was simply no chain of command that Thieu could rely on. Instead, he found a government of intensely jealous fiefdoms, whose bosses would pass on orders only if they suited their purpose...
...radio and press, put the armed forces on alert, sent tanks rumbling down Rio de Janeiro's broad Avenida Brasil and, finally, suspended Brazil's constitution and shut down its Congress-both indefinitely. . Nest of Torturers. Alves, 32, is the chief parliamentary critic of the military strongmen behind Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Last year, he wrote Tortures and the Tortured, a study of the brutal manner in which Brazil's military deal with their political opponents. The book was banned temporarily. After his September speech, in which he assailed the military...
Keefe and Sinclair, both at 7-2, have emerged as the team's strongmen. McGuinn, who has improved greatly since failing to qualify for the Navy trip, seems ready to challenge for the number one and two spots that he has held for the last two years. He now has a 7-1 record. LoPucki, at one, still hasn't conquered his putting troubles, but may be in shape today...
Fast-improving shot-putters Charlie Ajootian and Bruce Hedendal finally made it over 50 ft. They lost to Jim Kavanaugh. But Kavanaugh, who won at 53 ft. 8 in., is one of the best Harvard's sophomore strongmen will face...
...officials, including Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann and White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, to urge Selden to drop the resolution. If it passed, they said, Latin American nations might read it as an excuse for Americans to intervene at the least threat of Communist subversion, and some Latin strongmen might attempt to use it as a convenient justification for moving in on other countries. Selden stood fast, and the resolution breezed through the House...