Word: almosts
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Paradoxically, however, dedicated arms controllers have lost ground during the hearings because the price of the treaty is almost certain to be a U.S. arms buildup. This was not only Kissinger's message, but that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and others. Indeed, the main issue no longer appears to be whether SALT II will pass, although that is not yet certain; instead, it is what kind of measures will accompany the treaty to strengthen the nation's defenses and send the right signals to the Kremlin...
From the Administration there was almost an audible sigh of relief after Kissinger's appearance. Because he had given no clue to what he intended to say, some Carter aides had feared that the former Secretary might propose "killer amendments." After the Tuesday testimony, the State Department said that while it did not agree with all of Kissinger's points, it welcomed his "general approach...
...Senate minority leader has a remarkable record on the issues. He is responsible, often original and almost always ahead. He dived in to help the President win the Panama Canal Treaty and the arms package for Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Down at the G.O.P.'s Tidewater Conference he seized the moment and focused on SALT as an occasion for a broad re-examination of the "total military and foreign policy relationship between the Soviet Union and the U.S." It was, in Baker's eyes, time to dispel the tattered remnants of Arthur Vandenberg's bipartisan tradition...
...Services and later with the State Department, Marcuse went back to teaching (Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis). His books, as they appeared, caused scarcely a ripple until the 1960s. Then came the splash. The student radicals who appropriated him were highly selective. From Marcuse's message, embedded in prose of almost impenetrable prolixity, they extracted the slogans that served their purposes. Explained an American radical: "It was our unrepressed intolerance and thorough antipermissiveness that brought our actions success. Who gave us the intellectual courage to be intolerant and unpermissive? Herbert Marcuse more than anyone...
...last to go was a ship's mate, convicted of mutiny against his captain, Mr. Nix. He reported his innocence to the last, promising those assembled for his execution that were he not guilty, the island would soon sink into the sea. Two months later, and it is almost needless to say "as legend has it," the island did disappear, leaving only a pebbly home for seagulls...