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Why did Ruiz want to surrender? He had blown most of his money on a girl friend and on bribing his way in and out of Mexico. Why did he want to surrender to a Times man? He knew that Coates had a weakness for engaging crooks. Besides, Coates would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Underdogs' Favorite | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Caught in the crossfire, Shastri temporized, upheld Hindi while at the same time promising that there would be no anti-Hindi discrimination. There will be equality in confusion: all civil-service applicants will probably be given exams in Hindi, English, and one of the other 13 major languages of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Retreat to English | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

What McNamara did not say was that the present U.S. policy of advising but not fighting in Viet Nam is hardly a winning strategy. The U.S. can probably continue that policy for a considerable time without serious damage, but it cannot possibly win the war without a far deeper involvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: We Will Be Far Better Off Facing the Issue | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

Weakness in the Air. Though China's air force ranks third in size in the world (behind the U.S. and Russia), its 2,900 planes are mostly obsolete MIG-15s and 17s. Western experts prediet that China will soon start turning out a few advanced MIG-19 and 21...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: A Test for Tigers | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

Curiously, none of the colony's Red Chinese-owned banks was affected, a fact that led to rumors that Peking agents had done their bit to help the panic along. On the air, the Governor pointed out that the problem was not financial weakness but only a shortage of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: Another Kind of Crisis | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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