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...began his career as a country curate, but was drafted by the Bishop of Dijon for a team of priestly commandos who specialized in street-corner evangelism. He learned to give free-thinking hecklers tit for tat. "You talk a lot about God, but we've never seen him," one yelled at him. "Prove to us he exists." Answered the canon: "You've never seen my derriere, have you? Nevertheless, it exists...
...moment, Chief of State Minh was busy with the problems of a chaotic country. A Buddhist but eager to demonstrate his religious neutrality, he ceremonially greeted Saigon's Roman Catholic Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh on his return from Rome, also dispatched a helicopter to bring home Le Thanh Tat, chief of the eccentric Cao Dai politico-religious sect, who had been exiled in Cambodia.* The air carried an unmistakable tang of political fever. Repeatedly Big Minh assured visitors of his hope to hold elections "if possible" in six to twelve months. But the U.S. is in no hurry...
...fall "essentially within the domestic jurisdiction" of the U.S. and outside the scope of the World Court. Called the Connally Amendment (after the late Tom Connally, U.S. Senator from Texas), this reservation limits the U.S.'s adherence to the World Court.* And under the reciprocity, or tit-for-tat principle of international law, the Connally Amendment gives every nation involved in a dispute with the U.S. the right to claim the same sort of "domestic jurisdiction" hedge if the U.S. submits the case to the World Court...
...moved. Throwing roadblocks across the avenues leading from the city to Saigon Airport, army units quickly won over units of Ngo Dinh Nhu's crack "special forces" near the airfield, giving a free hand to air force pilots who were planning to support the coup d'état with rocket-equipped dive bombers...
...nuclear force will be only a deterrent, or else a last-gasp weapon; if they fail to deter, and France is falling, then and only then are the bombers to be used to drag the attacker under with France. They cannot be used on routine, tit-for-tat bombing missions as the war games suggested. As for the frantic, 15-weapon battlefield broadside, so lavish a use of atomic weapons in so small an area (particularly on French soil) amounted to nothing more than an old-fashioned artillery barrage, reduced to absurdity. And why move into the area 15 minutes...