Word: cautionings
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...ever expected a doctor to have a good word to say about cancer, but this week a team of physicians and surgeons at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center came as close to doing so as scientific caution would permit. A kidney transplanted from a cancer patient, it seems, may have a better chance of survival than one taken from a healthy donor...
...lies in its description of the process of shaping American policy abroad, and the harsh price exacted from well meaning men who only see what they want to see. To formulate a foreign policy which will reach its goal, the landscape on the way must be closely observed. The caution Halberstam learned slogging through the jungles of Katanga is relevant to policy makers attempting to plot America's course abroad: "The relationship between African maps and African landscape is extremely haphazard...
Fourth, he recognizes the dispute between Russia and China on how to handle the United States. Moscowcounsels caution although nominally supporting sacred wars of liberation. The Chinese reply that if the U.S. is faced with a protracted guerrilla struggle, eventually, American public opinion and the preference of the peasants for a movement which promises them land without landlords will force the U.S. out. McNamara has warned Johnson that Vietnam is a test case, and that if the U.S. backs down here, the Chinese win the argument. Other peasant revolutionaries around the globe will begin similar bids for power...
Moot's fears counsel caution, and chairman of Cambridge's "Citizens' Committee on Implementation of the Economic Opportunity Act," that's what he has given the City...
...Washington gives the go-ahead for everything the committee has asked for, Cambridge will be running only "pilot" projects this summer. Moot explains this caution: "Getting the wrong programs started could be a problem... Once you create something, it's hard to kill it, although you may have decided it's not a good program and you want to put your resources elsewhere...