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...higher level of speculation political philosopher Leo Strauss has laid the groundwork for this re-examination of current fashionable dogmas by re-examining, in the most meticulous and scholarly fashion, the entire tradition of modern philosophy that started with Bacon and Hobbes. Strauss's work has encouraged the reconsideration of the prevailing positivist philosophy which locates the noetic center of gravity in the natural sciences and mathematics and which is therefore "value free," independent of ethics. Such a political science, says Strauss, by refusing to make value judgments and distinguish between "great statesmen, mediocrities, and insane impostors" may be good...
...guerrillas had attacked Israeli targets in Cyprus (see following story). But the detailed planning had actually begun a month earlier, when two nondescript men and a dark-haired woman in her mid-30s visited Beirut on Western passports. Agents of Mossad, the Israeli external-intelligence network, they laid the groundwork for the extraordinary invasion. They were helped by Israeli agents living in Beirut, including some who had infiltrated the fedayeen movement itself and others who arrived later. To get ready for the commandos, six agents went to Avis and a local firm called Lenacar and rented a station wagon, four...
Indeed, any tempered idealists who envision 1976 as a broad-based rejection of Nixon-Republican realism had better consider the groundwork being done on all levels by Republicans before reassuring themselves that the mandate of 1972 cannot be foisted upon the American people again four years hence...
Young Edison. What worries scientists is the obvious dangers in any policy, however well intended, that aims at short-term practical and political benefits at the expense of more fundamental research. Nixon's war on cancer, for instance, would not have been possible without the vital groundwork laid by many molecular biologists who spent long, wearying hours in the lab unraveling the structure and workings of the DNA and RNA molecules. They did their work with no concern other than a desire to add to man's store of knowledge. To a large degree, the U.S. was able...
...real breakthrough will appear only after Nixon and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev confer later this year in Washington. Therefore, in addition to being shopping trips for additional U.S. military or economic aid, both Hussein's and Mrs. Meir's visits were designed to lay the groundwork for that later call...