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...held it for four days finally agreed to leave peacefully. And Uruguay's third general strike in a month ended without Pacheco Areco's having had to use emergency measures. The President still needs, however, all the help he can get: he has set out to tighten the belt of a country that is used to wearing it very loose...
Those desires are unrealistic at present, because the Christian Democrats refuse to go along with them. Many of them, on the contrary, favor a return to a far tougher line with the Soviet bloc and argue that West German concessions are likely only to encourage Ulbricht to tighten his grip on West Berlin. As they see it, deals between the two Germanys ultimately would erode the allied responsibility for West Berlin, still the city's best guarantee for safety...
Toothless Answer. Attempts to tighten the absurdly loose laws have repeatedly been defeated, largely due to the efforts of the 1,000,000-member National Rifle Association. Two years before he became President, John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully sought a ban on imports of foreign weapons?which would have kept out of the U.S. the $12.78 Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle that killed him in 1963. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, declaring that "It is past time that we wipe this stain of violence from this land," testified in favor of a bill to tighten controls on handguns ?such...
...danger of such a low-key response was that Ulbricht might be emboldened to undertake some new move to tighten the noose that he holds around West Berlin...
...There are seven levels of competition in Canada-Peewees, Bantams, Midgets, Juveniles, Junior B's, Junior A's and Professionals; Hull skipped the Peewees, Midgets and Juveniles. Officially. Actually, confides Pringle, who played against him in the Bantams, Bobby freelanced. When the Bantam game ended, he would tighten up his laces and join a Midget team in the next game. After that was over, he would skate back on the ice with the still older Juvenile League players. "He used to play hockey practically all Saturday morning," says Pringle. "Some mornings he'd score 25 goals...