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...against the North another notch, and antiwar sentiments were rekindled anew. His television announcement that he would mine the North Vietnamese ports prompted renewed plans for action, as Harvard students again prepared to disrupt their routines to stop what appeared briefly to be a mad march to the nuclear brink...
...elusive Grail than in Northern Ireland, where the mood of the warring Catholic and Protestant communities can swing violently. But last week, for a while at least, peace seemed a bit closer, as one of the two rival wings of the Irish Republican Army drew back from the brink of what had seemed an incipient civil war. In a dramatic policy announcement, the Marxist-leaning Official wing of the I.R.A. said that "in view of the growing danger of sectarian conflict," it was suspending "all military action" in Northern Ireland unless attacked by British troops or local Protestant forces...
...President Nixon's speech on mining Haiphong [May 22] was an admission that his policy of Vietnamization has failed utterly. The Administration's disastrous leadership has now brought us to the brink of global warfare to rescue a small corrupt government and win a bloody war that the American people long ago disowned...
...Post concluded that "it is not worth risking a wider war in order to save Saigon. The President has gone too far, and we hope he can find a way back." The Boston Globe resorted to sarcasm: "We hope that as the crisis develops and we approach the brink of disaster, those on the other side will show as much feeling for basic humanity as the Administration has for saving face...
Weller--a graduated from Brandeis in '65--has put together a memoir of the middle nineteen-sixties, those years of "Good Day Sunshine" when a peace march could still be a lark and graduate school a respectable alternative. His characters live precariously on the brink of graduation: Bob, a music student who contemplates submitting to the draft as the simplest way to end it all. Kathy, who's convinced that by telling Bob he gave her her first orgasm she's given him the confidence to go on to a brilliant career. Norman, a graduate student in mathematics who, with...