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...does with changing times. The erosion can be attributed, in part, to the Viet Nam War and Washington's turning away from Europe to Asia. It can also be partly traced to the obstructionism of France and Charles de Gaulle's decision to kick NATO troops off French soil in the mid-'60s. But NATO is far from moribund. Coming after the squabbling within the alliance last winter, the Ottawa meeting offered reassuring evidence of that fact. The meeting changed nothing except the atmosphere, but that in itself is of some importance. The new French government of Valéry Giscard...
Like the prophets of old, the President of the U.S. demonstrated last week that he is not without honor save perhaps in his own country. From the moment Richard Nixon set foot on Egyptian soil, beginning his historic, seven-day trip to four Arab nations and Israel, the huzzas and hossannas fell like sweet rain. For the President, coming out of the parched Watergate wasteland of Washington, the praise and the cheers of multitudes were welcome indeed, particularly since each stop, each spectacle, was beamed in living color back to the living rooms of the U.S. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler...
...this view and to show that even under slavery, black people were among the most accomplished and admirable people in the United States, "to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without development for their first two hundred and fifty years on American soil...
...ensure the survival of some species over long periods of drought and temperature extremes, nature has produced organisms that can exist many years in suspended animation. Last week two scientists announced that in soil samples taken from deep below the surface of Antarctica, they found frozen bacteria that may be anywhere from 10,000 to 1 million years old. When incubated, some of the bacteria not only returned to life but also reproduced...
...Dana Point, Calif., had been working for the past three years on a project aimed at evaluating the environmental impact of deep drilling on Antarctica. As part of their work, they regularly analyzed the material brought up by the drills to determine what surface contaminants had seeped into the soil. Some experiments conducted on cores taken from layers of soil, rock and ice that had been laid down between 10,000 and 1 million years ago produced startling results. Several samples taken from the Ross Island core-one from a depth of 1,260 ft. -contained rod-shaped bacteria...