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...great adventure abroad was still far from clear. Certainly the Democrats were now on the defensive about the war issue; they faced the possibility that Nixon in 1972 will have the brightened aura of a world statesman and peacemaker. Potential Democratic candidates for the presidency could only applaud Nixon's coup. The quixotic candidacy of Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey, centered so completely upon the war, looked even more forlorn...
With such goings on, it was small wonder that the demonstrators who poured into Beirut's streets to applaud General Jaafar Numeiry's return to power in the Sudan were so befuddled that they chanted slogans condemning a bizarre assortment of bedfellows: Israel, Jordan's Hussein, the U.S. and the Communists. "In the face of Israel we are all Arabs," Sadat told a meeting of Egypt's Arab Socialist Union last week, but he added: "Unfortunately, disunity still prevails amongst...
...TREAT WOMEN AS SEXUAL OBJECTS. This notion is now embraced by 57% of American women under 25, according to a recent poll by McCall's of 20,000 females. Many women who do not agree with the proposition still applaud the movement's rebellion against the Playboy philosophy. Even girls that girl-watchers watch are bored at being considered nothing more than Bunnies or potential bedmates and are delighted to reject the cosmetic look imposed by male tastes. Germaine Greer says that she is "sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything...
...fiercely loyal Cavett fan from the time of Dick's TV talk debut, I applaud your recognition of his efforts to elevate the ubiquitous gabfests to some sort of urbanity...
...first to applaud progress if it is beneficial and wise; however, I do not like the direction the New Genetics is taking. Scientists should not start tampering with man, regardless of how high their intentions are. Any scientist who harbors a desire to be God has an astronomical ego and is to be greatly feared and watched...