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...Government charged that G.M. used its position as a major U.S. shipper of goods to coerce railroads into buying G.M. equipment, had even gone so far as to threaten the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad that certain traffic would be diverted to lines that had bought more G.M. locomotives. The trustbusters also contended that G.M. at times sold locomotives at a loss to win a sale. As a result, charged the Government, two of G.M.'s chief competitors-Fairbanks, Morse & Co. and Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp.-have been forced out of the field, and G.M. has cornered...
...their own, the exiles hardly seem strong enough to threaten Castro's well-armed dictatorship. The Varona group has about 2,500 men armed and trained as an invasion force to challenge Castro's 200,000 militia. In Havana last week, Castro hooted at the council's invasion scheme: "Behind that plan there must be something more. There is a more complex plan because they could not rest their hopes on a group of mercenaries...
...Bromley Oxnam, retired Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake. Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.-signed an opinion that "it would be most unfortunate for a major church to press its own interests in a way that would threaten the strengthening of our basic educational system." Dr. Robert E. Van Deusen of the National Lutheran Council told the House subcommittee that a religious group with its own high school system "should provide the necessary financial support, thus insuring its own continuing autonomy and freedom." The Association of Reform Rabbis...
...doctrine implied no downgrading of nuclear strike power, no doubts that the defense of the continental U.S. against its principal enemy still rests on the ability to hit back massively. Rather, it acknowledged that the missile standoff makes it less and less realistic to threaten "massive retaliation at places of our choosing" in response to lesser Communist attacks that could be better met by conventional forces or even guerrilla warfare (see box). The U.S.'s ability to wage all-out nuclear war and yet do little against border incursions has come to hamper the diplomat as well...
...Gaulle asked Bourguiba 1) to help convince the F.L.N. leaders that he was in earnest, 2) to urge on them the wisdom of progressing by stages so that chaos, bloodshed or disorder could be avoided. French public opinion would instantly harden against any policy that seemed to threaten the large and frightened European minority in Algeria, he warne,d. Without making any specific promise, De Gaulle hinted he would soon release from prison a top F.L.N. leader, Mohammed ben Bella. Bourguiba did not press him. "One does not haggle with De Gaulle," he said. "He is too big for that...