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...Also gracing the town's first mixed social event in memory: a hand-sewn Sierra Leone flag quickly Rossed together by the mayor's wife-an appropriate gesture in an area just 25 miles from Frederick, Md., where Stonewall Jackson spared the old grey head of Flag Waver Barbara Frietchie...
Under the first impact of the mutiny of the generals in Algiers, even Charles de Gaulle's iron composure seemed momentarily to waver. But in four perilous days, the 70-year-old De Gaulle re-established his imposing authority. France was left badly shaken, but with a sense that long-lived rancors had been purged. Stubborn and proud, De Gaulle once again proved himself the greatest Frenchman of modern times...
...crucial. Between their fear of pro-Castro sentiment among their own masses and the distasteful memory of past U.S. "interventions" ranging from the Mexican War to the Marine operations in the Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s, even some of the U.S.'s strongest Latin American allies would waver. Latin American governments therefore tend to wish Castro would go away or fall of his own weight, are not very eager to join in the job though opposed to him, and only hope that the U.S. acts in a way it does not ever have cause to regret...
Though the President advocated a reduction of Quemoy forces provided that the Communists pledged a ceasefire, he did not waver on the question of Communist expansion. "The basic issue, as we see it," he said in October, "is to avoid retreat in the face of force...
...Bangkok's Sathiraphab, and in Beirut a university professor said wryly of his Arab students: "You would have thought they launched it themselves." But nowhere was the beeper's impact so ominous as in the neutral nations of Afro-Asia, where hundreds of millions of uncommitted minds waver between East and West. Its message, said the London Economist last week, was a simple one: "We Russians, a backward people ourselves less than a lifetime ago, can now do even more spectacular things than the rich and pompous West-thanks to Communism." Nothing could have struck more dramatically...