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...sign that Israel is prepared to return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate was being discussed...
...Dean, Hunt and Magruder, the Government's case against all of the defendants was tightening. The main hazards to that case, however, were beyond the prosecution's control. Judge Sirica was still handling the trial in a controversial way (see box page 21), and two illnesses posed ticklish future decisions for Sirica to make. Nixon's postoperative complications made it highly unlikely that he will be able to travel to Washington before the trial ends. Defendant John Ehrlichman's attorneys nonetheless continued to insist that Nixon is vital to their case. Thus proposals to move...
...such original comic novels as The Free-Lance Pallbearers, Yellow Back Radio Broke Down and Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed displayed powers of camouflage, mimicry and verbal play that drew praise from his peers-though very little cash from his publishers. As a black writer with a ticklish touch, Reed had to sit in the back of the literary omnibus until the white audience tired of having their heads whipped by the Cleavers and Joneses...
...ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Later, at the Continental Congress ceremony in Philadelphia, the President predicted that the nation would defeat "the tyranny of double-digit inflation" before the Bicentennial climax in July 1976. As if to set the stage for his pardon of Richard Nixon, Ford also announced that on the ticklish issue of amnesty for Viet Nam War deserters and draft evaders, he plans to create a clemency review board to set policy on a case-by-case basis...
This was a highly unreasonable statement, not to say a foolish one. It was as though Eisenhower were boasting arrogantly about what the United States could do and would do. Eisenhower's stand canceled any opportunity for us to get him out of the ticklish situation he was in. It was no longer possible for us to spare the President. He had, so to speak, offered us his back end, and we obliged him by kicking it as hard as we could...