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State Department buzz has Maxwell Taylor asking to be relieved, in South Vietnam, with Henry Cabot Lodge being approached to succeed his successor. If Lodge returns, Administration attempts to implicate Republican Party in Southeast Asian disaster may triumph. Observers see “bipartisanship” play behind President Johnson’s second public mention of Eisenhower letter of Oct. 25, 1954, extending American aid to then President Diem for purposes of “developing and maintaining a strong, viable state, capable of resisting attempted subversion or aggression through military means.” Inability of successive Saigon regimes to fulfill Eisenhower conditions may give Johnson something to point to when time comes, give or take a coup, to press for negotiated settlement.

John Glenn, astronaut, executive and would-be Democratic politician, in a quandary. Political strings attached to posh job with soft drink firm keep him from running against home office district’s new GOP congressman. Next shot at Senate seat, provided he keeps Ohio residence, would pit him against veteran Democrat Frank Lausche. Too Kennedied to be lionized by Lyndon, Glenn seeks appropriate public outlet, seized chance to head 1965 Freedom Roll Call, annual free enterprise campaign sponsored by Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, Pa. . . . Rather than betray technical secrets Goodyear Co. giving up plans to build plant in Rumania. . . . Operation Rathole, or, Why Comrades Weep: Soviet advisers, long conditioned to Nasser’s profligacy, blew up when technically inept Egyptians burnt out one brand-new Russian-built coking furnace at Helwan in six weeks and nearly wrecked another. Soviet aid agreements now stipulate “no replacements.”

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State Department buzz has Maxwell Taylor asking to be relieved, in South Vietnam, with Henry Cabot Lodge being approached to succeed his successor. If Lodge returns, Administration attempts to implicate Republican Party in Southeast Asian disaster may triumph. Observers see “bipartisanship” play behind President Johnson’s second public mention of Eisenhower letter of Oct. 25, 1954, extending American aid to then President Diem for purposes of “developing and maintaining a strong, viable state, capable of resisting attempted subversion or aggression through military means.” Inability of successive Saigon regimes to fulfill Eisenhower conditions may give Johnson something to point to when time comes, give or take a coup, to press for negotiated settlement.

John Glenn, astronaut, executive and would-be Democratic politician, in a quandary. Political strings attached to posh job with soft drink firm keep him from running against home office district’s new GOP congressman. Next shot at Senate seat, provided he keeps Ohio residence, would pit him against veteran Democrat Frank Lausche. Too Kennedied to be lionized by Lyndon, Glenn seeks appropriate public outlet, seized chance to head 1965 Freedom Roll Call, annual free enterprise campaign sponsored by Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, Pa. . . . Rather than betray technical secrets Goodyear Co. giving up plans to build plant in Rumania. . . . Operation Rathole, or, Why Comrades Weep: Soviet advisers, long conditioned to Nasser’s profligacy, blew up when technically inept Egyptians burnt out one brand-new Russian-built coking furnace at Helwan in six weeks and nearly wrecked another. Soviet aid agreements now stipulate “no replacements.”