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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well newsman, walked out on the family, which partly explains Pat's lifelong preoccupation with broken homes. To provide for her daughter and two sons, Pat's mother became a night nurse and later opened a bar in Hell's Kitchen on Manhattan's West Side; Pat often served as bartender...
...culture," says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer, "you get out of poverty by going to college and becoming a lawyer or an intellectual. In the Irish culture, you get out by going into politics. Pat did both. He links the Jewish intelligentsia and the world of politics." On the intellectual side, he collaborated with Glazer in writing Beyond the Melting Pot (1963), a groundbreaking study that pointed out how strongly America's various ethnic groups have resisted assimilation. In politics, he worked on Harriman's 1954 campaign for Governor of New York and later became Assistant Secretary of Labor...
...North Viet Nam are involved in Laos for precisely the same reason: both countries feel that their presence is necessary to prosecute the war in Viet Nam. Neither side will admit publicly the full extent of its involvement because both are acting in violation of the 1962 Geneva accords, which attempted to impose a neutralist settlement on this divided country...
...Laos situation is not yet out of hand. The danger is that even modest escalation has a momentum that could provoke a bigger war in Laos than either side wants. It is reasonable that the U.S. would want to keep Prince Souvanna Phouma's government propped up while trying to extricate itself from Viet Nam. But it is debatable whether increased air and ground offensives are necessary. Instead of heating up the war in Laos, Washington might well consider cooling it down. An obvious way would be to decrease air activity, but not below the level needed to preserve...
Outdated Attitudes. Willy Brandt, who learned the difficulties of dealing with the Soviets as mayor of West Berlin, bridles at suggestions that he is giving away too much to the other side. In his opinion, he is simply relinquishing West Germany's claim to outmoded bargaining positions. "Our aim," he says, "is to bring Europe closer together and to establish at least partial communication between the two halves of the divided continent. We mean this in the sense that Communism is itself no longer totally monolithic and that modern societies need interchange of information for their own development...