Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signer of the petition opposing the methods used by opponents of Professor Richard Herrnstein's, masterly analysis of intelligence performance. I, speaking for myself, think the Dunster House letter (Crimson December 6th) was just plain silly...
...have not been rioting, Nixon has done little to make them feel in the mainstream of the nation's life. Three times in the past year the watchdog U.S. Civil Rights Commission attacked his enforcement of civil rights legislation, once describing it as "less than adequate." Nixon repeatedly made plain his opposition to busing to achieve school integration, even as the courts often continued to encourage it. The President perhaps has a majority of Americans behind him in that view, but the fact remains that in many cities no other tool seems to exist to break up all-black schools...
Even so, it is still true that aircraft alone cannot save a weak fighting force. The Communists proved that again last week when despite fierce U.S. air attacks, they easily brushed Thai and Laotian troops from the strategic Plain of Jars, as they do every year when the monsoon rains subside and the skies clear...
...State Department has made it plain that Washington stands ready to supply Bangladesh with humanitarian aid. At week's end Bangladesh's Acting President Syed Nazrul Islam and his government were already settled in Dacca, and Washington was said to be considering recognition of the new nation...
...route back to Washington from the Azores summit, White House Adviser Henry Kissinger chatted aboard the Spirit of '76 with five "pool" reporters who represented 88 other members of the presidential press party. Under persistent questioning, Kissinger retreated from plain background rules to "deep background." That meant information could be used only on the reporters' own authority, without attribution to those all-knowing "Administration officials." Thus shielded, he hinted that President Nixon might-just might-call off his planned Moscow trip next spring (see THE NATION). The pool wrote the report, cleared it with Kissinger and passed...