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...member of the Foreign Service since 1949, Habib sharpened his skills as a negotiator while heading the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks with North Viet Nam from 1969 to 1971. He participated in many of Henry Kissinger's Middle East shuttles, and was called back from retirement in 1979 to serve as special adviser to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
Sasway is not a conscientious objector; he believes in "just wars" (World War II, for example, but not Viet Nam). "A volunteer Army," he says, "is the only kind of military force compatible with a country philosophically rooted in freedom and equal justice." As the first American indicted for draft-registration evasion since the Viet Nam era, he faces up to five years in jail and $10,000 in fines...
After the batterings of Selma and Viet Nam, several assassinations and summers of psychedelic overload, the country needed a warm bath and a bit of soothing. What it got instead was a fresh, hard needlepoint shower from the ranks?indeed, from the home. It was a little too much. Doors slammed, windows rattled shut. The national circuits had temporarily shorted out, and, in the prevailing gloom, the feminist torches looked less like beacons than
...will we get another opportunity like this in our lifetime?" Even observers who don't for a minute believe the Soviet Union would actually collapse think that its behavior could be influenced: that economic pressure can force a reduction in Soviet military spending, diminish aid to Cuba and Viet Nam and even, perhaps, bring about a measure of internal reform in the Communist system. Reagan's principal aim in attacking the pipeline agreement is to prevent Moscow from benefiting from a flow of hard currency (an estimated $8 billion annually by the late 1980s) that could be used...
...board still tended to follow the presidential lead. When Dwight Eisenhower took office in 1953 on a promise to curb inflation, the Fed cooperated; money growth averaged only 1.8% a year during Ike's terms. When Lyndon Johnson later on needed easy money to help finance the Viet Nam War along with his Great Society domestic programs, the board once again cooperated; by the end of L.B.J.'s tenure, money growth was spurting at a rate of almost 8%. During the Nixon years, the board swung back and forth from tight money to loose following the Administration...