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...aides: Carter just happened to receive right then assurances from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi that the expanded aid would actually get through to hungry Cambodians. Well, maybe. But Carter's whole week demonstrated that he is acutely aware of the powers of an incumbent President and determined to use them in his contest with Kennedy for the Democratic nomination. Some other samples of his new assertiveness...
...told him that he would kill himself if his name were printed. "He said that he's bought a hose and that he planned to attach it to his car in his garage, but that his garage was being rebuilt," said Isaacs. "He then asked if he could use my garage." Kirchner later admitted that the revelations about him were true, though "negative and vicious...
...alert, two notches below a red alert. The Pentagon sent the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk toward a South Korean port and rushed two Airborne Warning and Control planes to the area to monitor North Korean military movements. U.S. diplomats in Peking and Moscow urged the Chinese and Soviets to use their influence to restrain North Korea. Washington also warned North Korea that the U.S. would "react strongly in accordance with its treaty obligations to any external attempt to exploit the situation...
...shipborne cargo to reach the port of Kompong Som. But it has refused to permit trucks to arrive from Bangkok lest the vehicles be hijacked by Khmer Rouge troops concentrated along the Thai border. Experts from the International Red Cross and UNICEF Starving child are convinced that Cambodia must use such overland convoys if it is to receive the massive quantities of grain that it needs. The primary reason the three Senators visited Cambodia, in fact, was to try to persuade the Phnom-Penh regime to do just that. But at week's end the ruling People...
...this time with both carrot and stick. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who last week dispelled rumors that he was gravely ill by appearing in public for the first time in 16 days (he showed up at a Moscow airport to welcome South Yemen's President), made ample use of both when he first launched the Soviet pitch in East Berlin on Oct. 6. On the one hand, he warned that if NATO carried out its ''dangerous'' plan, the Warsaw Pact would have to ''take necessary extra steps''-meaning an additional arms...