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...management services (see following story). A great deal of Wall Street's retrenching involves firms that rely on retail brokerage for much of their revenue. So far this year, Manhattan-based H. Hentz & Co. has closed five of its 38 branches. Blair & Co. has dismissed 45 employees, and Thomson & McKinnon has furloughed 40 employees and suspended its training program for salesmen. Last week, Francis I duPont & Co., No. 3 among the nation's retail brokerage firms, announced that it had dismissed some 200 workers and will close eight of its 111 branch offices...
...with their neighbors. To that end, distant as it now seems, Washington might well take several small to middling unilateral steps demonstrating that the U.S. poses no threat to China and its regime, and that it desires conciliation whenever Peking is ready for it. Says Harvard Sinologist James C. Thomson Jr., a former State Department and National Security Council official: "Why wait for the other man to blink? Why not try winking at him?" Among the many winks-some possible at once, others at a later time-that U.S. China specialists have suggested...
...General Assembly, leaving to future discussion the allocation or abolition of the Security Council seat held by Nationalist China since 1945. The trouble with a two-China solution is, of course, that both Peking and Taipei bitterly denounce even the slightest suggestion of it. To skirt the problem, James Thomson has evolved a solution that he describes as "a step into ambiguity." If successful, it would temporarily shelve the Taiwan issue in its present form. Thomson advocates a tacit mutual acknowledgment of Peking's residual sovereignty over Taiwan, along with a similar acknowledgment of Taiwan's full autonomy...
Intellectuals should learn to master the art of dissent within government, a problem that has greatly changed since the days of Thomas More and Machiavelli. James C. Thomson Jr., a former East Asia specialist at the State Department and White House, writes that in the internal Government debate over Viet Nam, "doubters and dissenters were effectively neutralized by a subtle dynamic: the domestication of dissenters." As soon as former Under Secretary of State George Ball began to express doubts, he was "warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes...
Miss Hodes says, the bulk of the intruders were students somewhere. A few, I know, were Harvard students. That they presumably had some intelligence makes all the more inexcusable their blatant violation of the right of others to meet together peacefully and privately. Samuel P. Huntington Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government