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...tentative settlement between Washington and Hanoi comes unstuck -and it could-the market would get a nasty shock. It also remains to be seen whether investors can surmount the roadblock psychology that in the past has often caused them to start selling shares whenever the Dow Jones average gets close to 1000, a mark above which it has never closed. That attitude smacks more of mysticism than analysis; stock prices would be very little higher in relation to business profits and the strength of the economy at 1000 on the Dow than they are at 984. For what...
...hard bargaining and conceivably even ultimate disappointment for the U.S. Furthermore, over the summit lies the danger of some accident-the bombing of a Soviet freighter in Haiphong, perhaps, or a confrontation between U.S. warships and the growing Russian flotilla off the North Vietnamese coast. "It could still come unstuck," worried a White House aide shortly before Nixon's departure...
...which have not yet settled on a price for that part of their oil production that reaches the Mediterranean by pipeline. Some major oil companies avow that they will shut down their Libyan production rather than accede to leapfrog demands, lest this cause the painful Teheran pact to come unstuck...
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This solution began to come unstuck almost as soon as it was pieced together. Souvanna's Neutralist army immediately split in two, half staying with the Premier and the balance joining the Pathet Lao. Pathet Lao ministers in Vientiane, rightfully fearing assassination, fled to the Plain of Jars in 1963 and formed a rump government. The right wing made a bid to seize full power in 1964. At that time, the U.S. dropped its backing of the rightists and swung its support to Souvanna. The idea of tripartite rule was dead...