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...emphasized that the North Vietnamese believe strongly that their cause is just. "They believe what Ho Chi Minh said, that 'nothing is more precious than freedom and independence,' " Clark said...
...startling changes in mood and tone. In New Haven, she was haranguing a luncheon gathering on the implications of the Watergate bugging and burglary. "If we as a nation accept bugging a private office," she said, "we are conditioning ourselves to accept the same kind of intrusion on the precious right of privacy. Next it could be a law office, a business office or a home..." At that moment, she happened to look down at the dishes in front of her and exclaimed, "Oh my goodness, your ice cream is melting...
...verge of solving one of its biggest coastal-pollution problems. Governor Tom McCall recently restricted the number of logs that could be stored on waters around timber-processing and pulp plants. The new policy is designed to reduce the bark and debris that, as they decompose, consume precious oxygen and thereby choke marine life. Says McCall's environmental chief, L.B. Day: "We think we can start harvesting oysters in Coos Bay in a couple of years...
Just how much the collectors of such objects stand to profit is open to question. For its "limited edition" of 51,000 sets of silver presidential medals, the Wittnauer Precious Metals Guild advertises that "525 Grains of Solid Sterling Silver in every medallion puts you well on your way to amassing a private Treasury of this precious metal." The first medal sells for $1, and the rest in the series cost $10 each. But 525 grains of silver are worth only about $2 in the wholesale market. The Silver Coalition Ltd. offers a series of out-of-print U.S. currency...
...world. Remembering Kissinger, with his fierce hatred of ideology and revolution, it is easy to imagine the final irony: future historians recording the bittersweet saga of a brilliant man who fought the progress of history and sanctioned the murder of innocents to preserve the obsolete ideals so precious...