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Quality, however, should not be overlooked in meeting the quantitative need. The College could either convert one tier of the concrete flats to clay or composition, or better build a dozen clay courts in the ample meadow beyond the present two rows. Setting upwind-breaks of bushes or canvas around the fences is another necessary step. At present, the courts are whipped by high winds coming off the river basin, even on relatively calm days...
...roar. Some leaped to the tribune, others charged across the Chamber floor at the Poujadist benches. In seconds the floor was a melee of pushing, shouting, punching Deputies. Stools flew overhead, Deputies tore lids off desks to use as weapons. Suddenly, three shots rang out. There in the second-tier gallery was a pale, gaunt young man, waving a nickel-plated pistol and shouting, "Vive Poujade!" The combatants froze into startled silence as spectators grappled with him. A woman screamed and fainted with a clatter among the gallery chairs...
While the State Department's position on the jets will enrage the Arabs and aggravate the French, it cannot further either of its conflicting aims in the Middle East--mutual security or the protection of Israel. Israel is not a part of the vital northern tier which Dulles feels must be armed to save the Middle East from Communist attacks. Nor would the jets really give Israel internal security: she could never maintain enough to forestall a large-scale aggression, while just a few warplanes might stimulate that aggression. As Dulles himself has pointed out, Israel is too small...
...northern Arab states to side with the West. On that basic Middle East decision, the U.S. and Britain still saw eye to eye. Accompanied by General Sir Gerald Templer, chief of the Imperial General Staff, Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan flew to Bagdad for the first Northern Tier meeting under the new Bagdad Pact. Britain has formally linked itself with Iraq, Iran and Pakistan in the pact. Though not a member, the U.S. showed its support by sending as "military and political liaison" Admiral John H. Cassady and Ambassador to Iraq Waldemar Gallman...
Moscow angrily denounced the Bagdad meeting as "the creation of a new, aggressive alignment" against Russia. Soviet diplomats were dickering to sell arms to Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen -all of them countries located south of the line behind which the Northern Tier is supposed to contain Soviet Communism...