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...jammed Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport as a U.S. Air Force jetliner swept in under fighter escort. As the plane swung sharply to a halt, out stepped the new U.S. ambassador, General Maxwell D. Taylor, fresh in shining sharkskin and a bright resolve. The Viet Cong had sworn to kill him, and indeed a terrorist carrying a homemade grenade in a loaf of bread had been captured just yards from the U.S. embassy the day before. But Max Taylor figured to stick around a while -at least until after the U.S. election...
Rolleston's prospects of winning seem slight. For one thing, he is fighting a law that got the most painstaking constitutional examination by a lawyer-dominated Congress sworn to uphold the Constitution just as fervently as the Supreme Court. What is nonetheless admirable is Rolleston's decision to test the law in court rather than to break it simply because he dislikes it. If his action sets a new tone for Southern resistance, it is good news...
...Premier Cheddi Jagan's government last week washed its hands of all responsibility for maintaining law and order in the strife-torn South American colony. In a teary speech to British Guiana's Senate, Janet Rosenberg Jagan, 43, Cheddi's Chicago-born, Communist-sworn wife, announced her resignation as Minister of Home Affairs after a year in the job; Janet accused her own cops of racism and sabotage, charged that the 90% Negro force is bitterly anti-Jagan, has done nothing to halt persecution of the country's Jagan-supporting East Indians...
...stayed there during the historic moment in the sweltering cabin of Air Force One when Johnson was sworn in, and he flew right on to Washington without even a clean shirt along...
Reynolds told the committee that during negotiations for Johnson's policy, Johnson Aide Walter Jenkins "suggested" that Reynolds buy the time, and Reynolds did so "because it was expected of me." Jenkins denied the allegation in a sworn affidavit to the committee...