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...however, seemed very worried. It was summer, and the prospect of a two or three week walkout from 'the mill heat during July held few terrors for most steel workers. The industry was also heading into the midsummer slack; steel production, currently scheduled at 95.7% of capacity, would probably drop to 80% before the expected snapback late in the third quarter...
Equally important, the apparent decision to slip out of the 1950 Agreement, by eliminating one possibility of action, will make intervention through the United Nations slightly more probable. Admittedly, United Nations intervention is not a surefire proposition. Only a Russian walkout enabled the Security Council to take action in Korea. Yet, in the Middle East, there is at least a fifty percent chance that Russia will agree to intervene through the United Nations. Should the Israelis initiate the attack, the Soviets might possibly agree to let the U.N. intervene, since it would allow the Russians themselves to send troops...
Barely had the walkout begun last week than it turned violent. As nonstrikers tried to drive through the picket lines, the strikers threw themselves on the cars. The thin line of Long Island police, under orders not to carry nightsticks, was repeatedly overwhelmed. Once, as a mob of pickets rushed to an entrance to head off workers, a cop stood aside. "What the hell was I going to do?" he muttered. "I was outnumbered...
...From a conference room deep in the maze of the Palais Bourbon's corridors, Demagogue Pierre Poujade (who is not a Deputy) directed the battle, rapping out orders, getting reports relayed from his wife in the public galleries, barking into the telephone. To a suggestion for a mass walkout, he snorted: "What then? You want to return next day like a beaten dog with your tail between your legs?" Poujade's orders to Le Pen, his unofficial floor manager: filibuster...
...army prevented the forces of seven Arab nations from invading Israel in 1948, a time when both East and West joined together in recognizing Israel's right to independence. Moreover, it is unlikely that there will be a repetition of the chance provided by the walkout of the Russian delegation ... which enabled U.N. troops to be authorized by the Security Council to defend Korea. A Soviet veto in the Security Council is to be expected in the light of present East-West relations. It is also clear that your suggestion that the Philippines send troops as a neutral nation would...