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...single apt image for Henry Kissinger's role in Vietnam, it would be one of the global diplomat clinging to stability, maintaining order, concerned with honor and prestige. And it is in Vietnam that the Nixon-Kissinger policy has reached the limit of its logic and faced the acid test...
Last week in New York, U.S. Treasury agents took a tentative step in that direction, arresting the league's acid-tongued leader, Rabbi Meir D. Kahane, and six of his followers. The seven were seized on federal warrants charging conspiracy to violate the Gun Control Act of 1968 by transporting weapons into the New York area. Within hours, Kahane was free on $25,000 bail and, ironically, charging persecution. Moreover, Kahane concluded a bizarre alliance with Joseph A. Colombo Sr., a reputed Mafia member and founder of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, to fight what both termed harassment...
Died. Dr. Donald Dexter Van Slyke. 88, clinical chemist; of cancer; in Garden City. N.Y. A major contributor to the study of amino-acid chemistry and kidney function. Van Slyke applied innovative analytical methods to both clinical and investigative medicine. He was known primarily for his work leading to the detection of acidosis (a condition often leading to diabetic coma) and his studies of kidney disease...
...Saturday night and the people who came to hear it. Everyone on The Land had nothing but scorn for the "weekend hippies" across the road who, it was felt, would leave before the action started Monday. The radicals with their commitment had no use for the freaks with their acid and bummers. It was the first time the people at The Land could unite about anything; after days of endless meetings and infighting, they finally had a cause of unity...
...code for an amino acid; it is one of the few combinations that tell the machine that makes proteins to bring an end to the protein chain, acting just like the period at the end of this sentence...