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While it is inevitable that the secrecy, the downright deceit and the huge buildup from small beginnings in Viet Nam are bitterly remembered, the comparison between Angola and Viet Nam is alarmist and simplistic. For one thing, or so the Administration argues, the levels of aid differ enormously. In 1954, the year the French pulled out of Indochina, for example, the Eisenhower Administration asked Congress for $500 million to aid the region's anti-Communist fighting forces. Ford and Kissinger have assured Congress that the U.S. will not send advisers or troops to Angola, and Washington's goal...
Stubblefield's evaluation of the strength of anti-abortion forces in Boston is not too alarmist, particularly considering his vantage point. The service he runs, and the similar if smaller ones at Mass General, Boston City Hospital and Beth Israel, are the major Boston facilities performing late abortions and they all have had to contend, in their policy-making, with last spring's Edelin conviction...
...bill's backers, meanwhile, are scoffing at alarmist assessments. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington notes sarcastically that Administration experts have estimated the amount of production that might be lost at anywhere from 14 million to 141 million tons a year; the figures, he says, are "basically meaningless...
This change of mood has produced some alarmist rhetoric. In his book American Jews: Community in Crisis, Gerald S. Strober, a former staff member of the American Jewish Committee, predicts that current trends will make "life rather unpleasant for the individual Jew" in America, and that U.S. Jews are now entering "the most perilous period" in their history. Author and Playwright Elie Wiesel, survivor of Nazi concentration camps, claimed, in the New York Times, that for the first time he could "foresee the possibility of Jews being massacred in the cities of America or in the forests of Europe" because...
GERALD FORD HAS never been an alarmist about the nation's economy--at least not during Republican administrations. At first, Mr. Ford even refused to acknowledge that the U.S. was in a recession. When he became president, however, he was forced to think about the matter a little more carefully, and he grudgingly came to admit the existence of economic difficulties. President Ford then proposed a tax increase as our panacea, but when that proved unpopular he decided to look for another scheme. Now Mr. Ford has pulled together a new package, in what The New York Times calls...