Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Although the article on "Animal Polluters" [Sept. 14] was informative and well written, it cast a very poor image of Marengo, Ill. As a native of this Midwestern Utopia, may I inform you that Marengo is famous not for manure control but rather as the home of one of the nation's two mousetrap factories, a large apiary and a thriving mushroom farm. In short, Marengo is more than...
...today's world, the U.S. has discovered that it cannot control the government it so massively finances and protects in Saigon. Neither the Soviet Union nor Communist China can control Hanoi. At least for a brief time, no one could control either the Syrians or the fedayeen in the Jordanian desert last week. There is, in fact, no way to check the long-term forces for change in most of the world's developing nations. When those changes promise a better life for more people, the U.S. might do well to support those forces, regardless of ideology. In fact, America...
Nixon thinks in less kindly terms about the two superpowers' roles in the Middle East. He is known to believe that while the U.S. seeks peace there, Russia wants control. But there is a common interest?preventing the smaller countries from pulling Moscow and Washington into a major confrontation. His tactic throughout the hair-raising week, he said, was to "show great power but also to show great restraint...
...listed a number of steps that it said should be taken to diminish campus unrest. Among the commission's recommendations: removal from the campus of as much defense-related research as possible; replacement of the ROTC with an off-campus training program unrelated to campus life; added riot-control training for National Guardsmen and a policy limiting weapons in campus flare-ups to specially trained anti-sniper units; the preparation of contingency plans by college administrators who may face disorders...
...Styron's defense. Blacks escalated the tempo. Instant polarizations. Insanity. The black man most critical of Styron's permitting Nat Turner to secretly desire a white woman was himself escorting a stunning blonde. As moderator, I equivocated where I meant to be "objective" or "fair"- and soon lost control of the crowd...