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Past Agonies. The conversations, to be sure, covered a variety of less sensitive subjects. The two Presidents were agreed on the desirability of pursuing negotiations with the Soviet Union, the Eastern European states and China. In some areas, Pompidou sought to erase resentments caused by his haughty predecessor, Charles de Gaulle. It was clear that Franco-American relations have become less contentious in the area of finance; Pompidou urged strengthening of the dollar as the keystone of the international monetary system...
...bomb mankind's first true hope of peace. But Andreski and others are gloomy about its potential as a deterrent. As men and weapons have multiplied, so have wars. "Our own century," writes Andreski, "has so far been much more warlike than its predecessor." The evidence bears him out: since 1900, almost a 100 million men have died in 100 wars-compared with 3,845,000 in the 19th century...
...White House at the moment, there is something like an essay contest in progress among a few aides and speechwriters attempting to give verbal shape to the President's philosophy. If nothing else, the episode illustrates a difference between Nixon and his predecessor; it short-circuits the imagination to conceive of Lyndon Johnson approving of such a staff forum on what he was thinking, or ought to think...
Others joined the press in protest. Ramsey Clark, Mitchell's predecessor at the Justice Department, said: "I think there has been a change in policy if general warrants are being issued, and I have a feeling of great uneasiness about it." Clark warned against destroying "the effectiveness of the press...
...Manning, appointed last year as coadjutor archbishop with right of succession, is a man curiously like Pope Paul himself, progressive in social matters, conservative in doctrine. A longtime auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, and later bishop of Fresno, County Cork-born Manning will probably be quicker than his predecessor to put into use Vatican-approved reforms such as the new Mass. If he is not likely to look kindly on avant-garde experimentation or liberal views on doctrine, he will, unlike Mclntyre, almost certainly have a more ready ear for complaints. "The church must make her own the social needs...