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...black leaders react to Malcolm's death? There are scenes of Martin Luther King deploring "the violence in American society," while Elijah Muhammad says. "Malcolm is a victim of his own preachings." But to the black masses, Malcolm's death meant quite a different thing. Perhaps the feeling is best described by the woman in the film who says, "He meant deliverance for my people...
...when Soviet ships are cautiously turning away from American mines at Haiphong. The strangest and most significant thing about it is that it is happening at all. When Nixon announced the mining of the North Vietnamese ports two weeks ago, he had no assurances on how the Kremlin might react. The Soviets had been told by Kissinger that Nixon was considering drastic action-but they did not know the specifics. Nixon's own hunch was that Moscow would postpone the meeting. But after an initial silence came the relatively mild Soviet denunciation of the President's move, followed...
...times he amuses himself at parties by playing a truculent young Patton ("If we could just blow out those goddamn dikes up North"). Privately his conversation runs to Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Browning. The night the B-52s started bombing Hanoi and Hai phong, Bunting said: "Can we react any more? I don't know. But this makes me physically sick." · Lance Morrow
...magnetic field of a passing ship. Others explode at an acoustical cue, such as a ship's propellers alongside or overhead. Still others go off when a ship's hull increases the water pressure. A mine's relatively simple computer can be programmed to react to combinations of signals. Thus some mines are equipped with "counters." They will allow, say, nine ships to pass by and then blow up the tenth. Such mines greatly increase the dangers of minesweeping, since the sweeper may be the fatal tenth vessel...
Despite the worries in Washington about how the Kremlin would react to the mining, some Sovietologists were not surprised that the initial Russian reaction was a relatively moderate statement of disapproval that jeopardized neither the West German vote nor Nixon's visit. The Soviets did their best to maintain a business-as-usual attitude. For example, Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Defense Minister, flew to Syria for a four-day visit. The reason is that for the past three years, Moscow's foreign policy has been based on three major considerations...