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...Senators and aides waged their fight in Washington, they persuaded some newsmen to re-examine Brown's Pentagon record. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak did so in a critical way, finding Brown to be inconsistent. First, he successfully resisted McNamara's efforts to abandon the bombing of North Viet Nam's military supply centers and transportation facilities (at one point Brown urged mining and bombing Haiphong harbor). Then, after the war, he pushed for faster disarmament agreements with the Soviets. In fact, the specific means of waging war are not really in conflict with ways...
...initial period is over, Vance said, he does not envision a major personal role for himself as an international negotiator. But, he added, along with Carter, "I clearly intend to be involved in the determination of what the U.S. negotiating strategy will be." Thus, while Vance will not completely abandon Kissinger's balance-of-power approach to foreign affairs, he will shun Kissinger's highly personalized style of diplomacy. Vance intends to allow U.S. negotiators to go as far as they can on their own, then have them bring the problems to him and Carter for resolution. Said...
...male chauvinist pigs" at a recent R-H Women's Center discussion. Many years ago I vowed never to fall back on that term in public or private; I have never done so; and while I have been known to employ the shorter form "pigs" with perhaps too great abandon, the aforementioned quote cannot be ascribed accurately...
Goodness, what a serious matter. Unless college can deliver a better pay-out, liberal education is bound to suffer the fate of other respectable but low-return activities like religion, love and honesty. Parents will stop investing in their children's education and shift to soybean futures. Students will abandon college classrooms for brokerage offices. Professors of economics will have to go to work...
What a loopy enterprise Network is! The production is designed, directed and acted with earnest, not to say dogged realism. The audience is asked to believe that people working inside the television oligopoly scheme to advance their corporate positions with such melodramatic abandon that their behavior constitutes not just an affront to traditional moral standards but clear and present danger to democratic society. Yet the plot that Paddy Chayefsky has concocted to prove this point is so crazily preposterous that even in post-Watergate America-where we know that bats can get loose in the corridors of power...