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...urgent problem affecting both foreign and defense pol icy is the degree of alarm that has characterized domestic crit icism...
...incumbent Administrations in recent years. During the Viet Nam War, many on the left bewailed what they consid ered the immorality of American policy. Destructive self-crit icism continued long after Viet Nam, but this tune it came from the right and was directed against the perceived impo tence of American policy...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Harris gives no quarter to any journalist living or dead ("Reporters cannot believe things they cannot instantly absorb, jot down, add up and phone in ... The media treat with cyn icism or derision anything they cannot comprehend"). Since no information broadcast or printed is worth knowing, he says, people should simply ignore journalism. They will learn of really important matters through other means - conversation, literature, deduction, he suggests. Then Harris switches hyper bole in midflight, arguing that the press's preoccupation with Watergate caused it to ignore more important problems, such...
Criticism from his countrymen is something South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky can answer or ignore -as the mood moves him. But crit icism from the U.S. is always a bitter pill. Last week Ky refused to swallow it. "If by the standards of a country with long experience in democracy, our elections still present serious shortcomings," he wrote to his detractors in the U.S. Congress, "I am the first Vietnamese to deplore that situation. But I can say without any doubt in my conscience that my government does not deserve any lesson in honesty and patriotism...
...engineering, and what it has done for the technical arts, it may well do for the law. The call for research in law is especially strong. Lawyers, courts, legislatures, the administration of justice in general, and the administration of criminal justice in particular, are subjects of serious crit- icism on the part of the lay public. The strain upon law due to the changes in modern life, and the resulting delays, uncertainties and miscarriages demand a service from legal scholars in national law schools that can be performed by no one else...
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