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...than a year, Venezuela's Castroite F.A.L.N. has committed almost every misdeed in the book to embarrass President Romulo Betancourt. It has cold-bloodedly murdered some 50 policemen, staged an endless series of robberies, hijackings, kidnapings and bombings. Through it all, Betancourt kept a tight rein on his temper; he regarded the F.A.L.N. as a civil police matter, an annoyance to be handled by ordinary criminal procedure. But last week, the F.A.L.N. outdid itself: it took on the army, and Betancourt swiftly declared all-out war against Venezuela's Communists...
...past, published criticism of him has often thrown the President into shows of temper. Now he was asked about two recently published books-one by TIME'S White House correspondent, Hugh Sidey, the other by Victor Lasky (see Opinion). Some reviewers had called the Sidey book too uncritical of Kennedy, the Lasky book too critical. What did the President think? Again, he refused to rise to the bait. He had, he said, thought Sidey's book "critical." As for Lasky's hatchet job, he had only read the first part, but he had seen it praised...
...said, recalling his Canadian youth, "the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave smashing viciously against the rock. It is called The Rage. That's me." On reaching 70, a nice round retirement number, he thundered: "I'll not give up my temper. I'll not give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices, the very foundation of my strength and vigor." When a new acting managing editor was hired for the Daily Express...
...thought is largely academic, since it would be almost as difficult to liberalize the Ulbricht regime as to get the Russians out of East Germany. The Jaspers line thus may temper but does not eliminate the basic urge for reunification in a country which achieved national unity later than other European nations and is fiercely insistent on its ethnic identity. That fact is at the heart of Bonn's opposition to any East-West agreement that would formally or psychologically seal the status quo in Germany and Europe. Says a Western ambassador in Bonn: "The issue of German unity...
Lotte Lenya owned Kurt Weill's music long before she became his widow. Her ravished soprano perfectly matched the temper of his Berlin theater songs-tough, bragging, wicked, hopeless-and no one could have done more with Bertolt Brecht's lyrics than a singer whose voice combines the chilling qualities of sober screams and drunken laughter. Even now-years past the peak of her career-Lenya's artistic claim frightens other singers off her turf...