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According to the official program, the leaders had come to consider "the most urgent question of our time???the tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle at the present stage and the unity of action of Communist and workers' parties, of all anti-imperialist forces." But the participants knew the real purpose of the meeting. Alarmed by divisions and defiance within Communism, the Soviet Union was out to salvage as much as possible of its once uncontested primacy over the movement...
...grew to be an extraordinary association. After De Gaulle left office in 1946, Pompidou stayed on in a series of civil service posts, but spent much of his time???very discreetly, almost secretly?as the manager of De Gaulle's affairs. He handled the publication of the general's memoirs, administered the foundation in memory of the De Gaulles' retarded daughter Anne, and was in fact unofficial chef de cabinet for the exile in Colombey. When De Gaulle finally returned to office as Premier in the last days of the Fourth Republic, Pompidou took a six-month leave of absence...
...Santa Monica City College that he decided to jettison ambitions to become a doctor and impulsively enrolled in an acting course at the Pasadena Playhouse. After a sketch in which he played an old man, his instructor took him aside and said, "Dusty, it may take you a long time???ten or 15 years?but you are going to have a life in the theater." Recalls Hoffman, ruefully: "He was sure right about how long it would take...
...scene was in sharp contrast with 1964, when a rare air of harmony prevailed and L.B.J.'s ubiquitous aides moved in quickly to muffle any signs of schism. Johnson's men were running things again, in tandem with Daley, but they were far less conspicuous this time???as if they sensed that though they controlled the convention's machinery, they did not control its spirit...
...proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face." Fixed in their own routine, the residents of Nasser's capital listened to the unfamiliar sound of the siren and continued?for a time???to go about their business...