Word: turnabout
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Though Spínola had worked in Guinea to involve the native population in the affairs of government-a sign perhaps that his own thinking was changing-few Portuguese were adequately prepared for the heretical turnabout of ideas in his book, Portugal and the Future, which came out last March and became Portugal's overnight bestseller (200,000 copies). In words that had an eerie echo of the arguments against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Spínola said what many in the country had been thinking: Portugal cannot win its African wars, and some political accommodation must...
...battle against alcoholism going? Again, there is good news and bad news-with an emphasis on the latter. Senator Hughes, who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the turnabout in the Government's attitude, is as good a judge as any. He is happy that tax dollars are joining the fight against alcoholism, and that the public is finally becoming aware that alcoholism is a treatable condition from which, with dedicated help, two-thirds or more of its victims can recover. But he sees even that as only limited comfort. "I'm not optimistic that...
Though other intelligence agencies, including the CIA, run public advertisements to recruit technical specialists and other personnel, such candor is a bizarre turnabout for the BND, which has been supersecretive since the postwar days when Reinhard Gehlen organized it out of the ashes of Nazi Germany's military intelligence. The "Gehlen Organization" was as mysterious as its founder, who generally stayed behind the wire-topped, 10-ft. concrete walls at Pullach and refused to be photographed. But the old guard, including Gehlen himself, finally retired; and new recruits for an organization of 5,000 people could no longer...
...against Wallace this year," concedes former U.S. Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, who was considered to be the most likely G.O.P. candidate. Wallace has not only the white vote; he is also expected to win at least half the black ballots-an astounding turnabout for the man who in another era stood in the school doorway in Tuscaloosa to keep black students from entering...
...disengagement with Israel. It is proceeding so well that the unexpected "capture" of a busload of touring American Jews last week by Egyptian soldiers (see box) was resolved in good-humored fashion. During a side trip to Cairo by Kissinger, Sadat rewarded the U.S. for what he considers a turnabout in its Middle East attitude. He and Kissinger announced that full diplomatic relations between Egypt and the U.S. were being resumed. To mark the occasion, Kissinger presided at a ceremony at the U.S. embassy near the Nile, which for nearly seven years has operated as the "American interests" section...