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Perhaps, as many of Carter's advisers believe, the President has no other alternative than to adjust American response to "the new realities" of world power. That, however, is a difficult thought to assimilate in a nation so rich and capable. Worried about the national spirit, Author James Michener was in town a few days ago to urge further space exploration. He eloquently posed the longer concern that is now in our national dialogue: "There seem to be great tides which operate in the history of civilization, and nations are prudent if they estimate the force of those tides...
Members of the ad board insist that academic probation is a mechanism designed to help the undergraduate adjust and organize his life at Harvard. It is not a punishment, they say. But it is hard to imagine a bureaucratic device that often prevents students from partaking in extracurriculars and that is called "probation" as anything but punishment. Back out in society, probation is what juvenile court gives you before they send you to jail...
While Savoid has managed to accept and adjust to the difficulties inherent in his position, Nathanial Austin, a former black P.G. County policeman, did not fit in as well...
...President assured congressional leaders last summer that he would adjust his policy "should circumstances affecting the balance [on the Korean peninsula] change significantly." One factor that could affect Carter's decision is whether North and South Korea resume the negotiations that stalled in August 1973. There were indications last week that the two sides might again start talking. Another factor is that keeping the G.I.s in South Korea might be popular. A poll last year by Potomac Associates, a Washington think tank, found that by 52% to 35%, Americans favored maintaining ground forces in South Korea. There also...
...under long-term contracts. Though the quoted long-term OPEC price currently stands at about $13 per bbl., spot-market oil last week was trading for as much as $17 per bbl. Warns Energy Economist John Lichtblau of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation: "The OPEC countries are free to adjust their prices if they want to, and they could well increase them so that not only will spot prices go up, but official prices as well, at least temporarily." It seems that the energy crisis is turning out to be less the moral equivalent of war-as Carter has called...