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...problem is the Geneva accord stipulations on unanimity. The accord refers vaguely to the ICC's power of making "recommendations" by a simple majority vote--two of its three members. But "on questions concerning violations or threats of violation" of the armistice, the Commission must be unanimous. In general, the Commission has decided "procedural" matters by majority, but required unanimity on all investigatory issues...
Galbraith allows for the possibility that he might be wrong?a concession rarely made by the more dogmatic critics of the war. "Should our continued presence be necessary," he says, "the course I propose will accord us a foothold for a time and thus allow us a second look." In any event, he says in a tart aside, past policy "has been wrong so long and so alarmingly that even a modestly right one will seem superb...
...last month sent an open letter to parents of parochial-school children declaring that "after 82 years in Los Angeles, we are being asked to stop teaching." The Los Angeles chancery responded with a frontpage editorial in the archdiocesan weekly, The Tidings, insisting that the sisters, of their own accord, were threatening to leave...
...interested only in "two hots and a cot," or two square meals and a place to sleep. When it came to Viet Nam, however, so vague were his exhortations for the most part that even hard-liners-of whom New Hampshire has a plenitude-often wagged their heads in accord with what they thought he said. When Romney called for the U.S. to "go on the peace offensive," one middle-aged woman chortled: "I like what he wants to do. go in there and get it over with. We're wasting too much time...
...Latin America; let North Americans, if they want to serve this continent, put themselves in subordinate positions, allow themselves to be really used by the people who live here. Let them serve alongside of Latin volunteers all working in co-operation. The plans that resulted would at once accord more closely with Latin reality than those of the present Peace Corps, and be more acceptable to the Latins. There could follow a genuine exchange of ideas, of tactics, of goals...