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Heilbroner also poses the following scenario: Major developing nations will get hold of nuclear bombs and use nuclear blackmail as a means of redistribution. He cleverly refers to the Arab oil embargo as a more peaceful manifestation of this phenomenon. But even without nuclear threat, and "wars of redistribution," limited wars are certainly assured to continue...
...would then be faced with an agonizing choice: either to strike back at Soviet population centers while knowing that Moscow retained the ability to counterstrike at U.S. cities, or to make major concessions to the Soviets and avoid further endangering American civilians. As farfetched as this "worst case" scenario seems, some strategists see it as a distinct danger should the two nations find themselves locked in a major international dispute...
...plot seemed like something out of Becket. The conspirator's accomplice, a poor man, was to go to the city of Recife in northeastern Brazil and there seek out a certain troublesome archbishop. "That priest," the accomplice was told, "must be eliminated." As it happened, the 1968 scenario was never played out. The would-be assassin was too softhearted to go through with the murder. Instead, he went to his intended victim, confessed the plot and warned him that others might...
...scenario reads like an excerpt from the "Profiles of Courage" that John F. Kennedy '40 once collected, complete with the David-and-Goliath theme that sentimentalist historians adore. But Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, the special prosecutor who defied the most powerful man in the Western world, and hero to millions of Watergate-watchers, was an unlikely candidate for gallantry...
...clear from this report that you are guilty as hell. Now, John, for [expletive deleted] sake go on in there and do what you should. And let's get this thing cleared up and get it off the country's back and move on." Haldeman is enthusiastic about that scenario. "That's the only way to beat it now," he says. By then Nixon is in agreement, but he does not want to give Mitchell the word himself. "Mitchell? this is going to break him up," he says. "You know it's a pain...