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...confidential British government study on the North Vietnamese economy, which TIME obtained last week, shows that behind Hanoi's stubborn determination to persist in the war lies a startlingly fragile economy...
...with its walls taut and blood circulation diminished. This in turn reduces the resistance to infection. Urinary-tract infections may manifest themselves by a burning pain during urination. Eventually, they can involve not only the urethra and bladder, but extend up to the kidneys. They are among the most stubborn and hard to treat of common infections. Penicillin is usually ineffective, and urologists have to rely on other antibiotics or other drugs such as the sulfas...
...generals sought to persuade Ongania to set a date for the election of a representative civilian government, but Ongania refused. Last week, in Argentina's sixth military coup in 40 years, the army surrounded Buenos Aires' Government House with troops. After holding out for twelve hours, the stubborn Ongania stepped into a Mercedes and drove 21 blocks to the junta's headquarters. "Gentlemen, I have come to present my resignation," he announced...
Ongania was unpopular with civilians and military alike for his stubborn authoritarianism. His generals called him "El Cano" (The Pipe), because, as one officer explained it, "He is very straight, but also very hollow." He did manage to curb Argentina's dangerous inflation, which dropped from 26.7% in 1966 to 6.5% last year. He won the gratitude of foreign businessmen by allowing repatriation of profits and by inviting the return of foreign oil companies whose exploration contracts had been canceled by his civilian predecessor, President Arturo Umberto Illia...
...present financial crisis, "should idealism overlook the advantages of a perfectly functioning, booming economy?" A European may smile condescendingly at the compulsion of elderly Americans to try to stay young. But we should remember, says Tyrmand, that "many of his elemental securities are dependent on the American, childish, stubborn denial of surrender." In America, "only death constitutes a positive end, an absolute and final break. While he is alive, man not only has the right to, but also the duty of, undertaking countless beginnings...