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This year the conference was held in the relaxed atmosphere of a resort near Acapulco, Mexico. Among the Government officials attending were George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Counsellor to the President; Charles Walker, Under Secretary of the Treasury; Preston Martin, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; and Allan Oakley Hunter, president of the Federal National Mortgage Association. They were joined by 80 leaders from every sector of the housing industry. That is quite an increase since the first meeting at Pebble Beach, Calif., when the presidents of the National Association of Home...
...Nixon's resort to force, and his threat to use it again, may well have set back the prospects for a peaceful exchange. The Administration has said that if the Paris negotiations continue to drag on without a settlement, it will simply keep on with Vietnamization. Many of the prisoners' wives are well aware that with the American troops out of South Viet Nam, there would be little bargaining leverage left to secure the release of American P.O.W.s still held by the Viet Cong or by the North Vietnamese. "It's a problem," admits one top Administration official. "We have...
...like strings of giant firecrackers, creating much noise but capable of no damage. Some, however, would have to neutralize soldiers and planes close to Son Tay with hard stuff?actions sure to bring violent protests from Hanoi and probably from the U.S. peace movement. There seemed no other resort to protect the raiders during the hour they would need to extricate the prisoners. The risk was grave, and Kissinger had one last session with the President. When Kissinger started to speculate as to how many of the helicopters might get out, Nixon cut him off: "That's bad luck...
...inhabitants hardly seem madder than the people around us. When Harry, played by John Gielgud, walks onto an almost bare stage, neatly folds his gloves and newspaper onto a table, and lowers himself into a frame chair, he could be anywhere. At a garden party, or perhaps a seaside resort. And Jack (Ralph Richardson), moving painfully to the table, smiling slightly, asking if he may sit down-is that what a lunatic looks like? Not until Jack asks Harry "How long have you been here?" and the second man, wounded, stammers, "Oh. . . a couple of. . .," do we begin to realize...
...example, when SDS campaigned against ROTC, or against the Cambridge Project, or against racist pay differentials among campus workers- administration spokesman parroted old saws about the need for "rational discussion" (while, in fact, they never discussed and had no way of dealing with the real issues except to resort to suspensions and expulsions). However, when SDS and UAG now challenge the CFIA to defend its existence in a public debate, we are told that we are incapable of "serious and rational discussion." If the CFIA were confident that SDS and UAG would really debate in an "irrational" manner in front...