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...ULSIVENESS. "We will hear over and over again until November such words as 'impulsive,' 'trigger-happy,' 'imprudent,' 'hip-shooting' and the like. Now, I wonder if the really 'impulsive' and 'imprudent' President isn't the one who is so indecisive and vacillating that he has no policy at all-with the result that potential aggressors are prompted to move because they know we have no policy. However, I can assure you that I would not appoint anyone to the offices of Secretary of State or Secretary...
Fire Two. The second Goldwater shot concerns what might be called the "orders gap." In Hershey last week, Barry, in responding to accusations that he is "trigger-happy," told newsmen that Lyndon Johnson had killed that issue himself with an "impulsive action that nobody has condemned, by telling subordinate commanders to use any weapons necessary" in the Gulf of Tonkin fortnight ago. "Do you mean that the President has given field commanders the right to use any weapons, including atomic weapons?" asked a reporter. "I would suggest you read his admonition to the commander of the Seventh Fleet in which...
...lonely hills of northeast Georgia. They were about 23 miles outside Athens when a car pulled alongside. A white man poked a sawed-off shotgun toward the Negroes' car, leveled the end of its barrel only three feet from Driver Penn's head. He pulled the trigger. Penn died instantly...
High Noon? The U.S., as President Johnson reiterated in June, "seeks no wider war." Yet even as it tried to shush Khanh, American officialdom privately conceded anew that retaliation against the north has not been ruled out. At least three turns of events could trigger direct retaliation against North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh: 1) assassination of Khanh by the Viet Cong, 2) a renewed terrorist campaign against...
Although no one yet knows just how IUCDS prevent conception, it is certain that-unlike the diaphragm, which covers the cervix-they do not prevent passage of the sperm into the uterus and along the Fallopian tube to meet the egg. Since they definitely trigger excessive contractions of the uterine muscles and of the Fallopian tubes, they may cause displacement of the egg before it has time to be fertilized or to settle in the wall of the womb...