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...outlaws the first use of gas in wartime, and the British proposal at the Geneva disarmament convention last summer which outlaws the production, stockpiling, and use of all biological weapons. McCarthy believes that signing these treaties would make the American policy unequivocal, and thus would force the military to abandon their CBW capabilities...
Jawboning and Arm Twisting. A number of critics have been urging the Administration to abandon its hands-off policy toward specific wage and price increases. Robert Roosa, the former Treasury Under Secretary who is now a partner in Brown Bros. Harriman, makes the extreme proposal that Nixon should appeal for a six-month voluntary freeze on all wages, prices and dividends. He argues that inflationary psychology has become so deeply ingrained that it will not be wiped out by a business slowdown "unless it reaches the disastrous scale of a depression...
...their children as it is to blacks, local white leaders began more than a month ago to prepare their city for the shock of final desegregation. A loosely knit committee of prominent whites met with the city's whites, urging them to support the public schools rather than abandon them. School administrators worked through the Christmas holiday to shift classrooms and equipment, and persuaded all of the system's 186 teachers to stay on the job. Even stu dents joined in the effort to pre serve their schools. The Yazoo City high school newspaper, the Yazooan, called upon...
...prestige of the Western powers, meanwhile, seemed to be rising. Vigorously seeking to open new Middle East markets, France is actively wooing Libya. The British are equally eager for Arab markets. Last month they quickly acceded to Colonel Gaddafi's demand that they abandon their bases in Libya, hoping that one result would be to persuade the Libyan army to buy British Chieftain tanks. Even the U.S. seems to be improving its image a bit, possibly because most of the Arab leaders are gradually beginning to admit that Washington's policy is no longer wholly pro-Israel. Since...
...months. Deterioration of reflex and temperament have set in so markedly that the two can deliver only muted snuffles back to earth. "Return!" comes the order from Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) at Mission Control. But the retrorockets misfire. With less than 48 hours of oxygen left, Control decides to abandon the boys to God and Walter Cronkite-at least until the entrance of crusty Space Veteran Ted Dougherty (David Janssen...