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...Chicago suburb of Midlothian is promoting itself as "the village of Lighted Flags," installing illuminated flagpoles (protocol requires lights at night if the flag is to be flown) so that the Stars and Stripes can fly 24 hours a day. Thirty such poles are now in place. Says Midlothian President Harry Raday: "I don't think it's political. It's the simple fact that the majority of people in the U.S. are pretty damned proud to be here. And they're tired of seeing pictures of people with beards hanging down to their damned navels with love beads...
...your discussion of presidential war powers [June 1], you neglected to quote the most relevant part of the so-called Tonkin Gulf Resolution: ". . . The United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom...
...Congress need to be more explicit? South Viet Nam is a "protocol state," and "all necessary steps" for its defense can plainly include air, naval and ground action against all hostile forces and bases which threaten its security, whether they be in Cambodia, in Laos or in North Viet Nam itself...
...Cloud's expulsion," said Murray Gart, Chief of Correspondents, "is an arbitrary and highly irregular act that violates both the spirit and protocol of normal journalistic relations." Cloud served in the San Francisco bureau before going to Moscow, where he ably reported a wide variety of stories on subjects ranging from Soviet space shots to the policymakers in the Kremlin...
...taught that women are irrational. What other explanation could there be for the constant yet seemingly unreasonable fighting with girls about possession, jealousy, sexual protocol, social protocol? Why else are mothers so helplessly trying to control, "protect," their children? Why else are secretaries so "self-important" and "bitchy?" That is, how else can we explain the inhuman relationships we have with women...