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...allies. Nixon's trip will counter that impression, perhaps inspire new purpose in NATO, and probably advance a Franco-American rapprochement. At home, the President can hardly expect a sudden breakthrough in the overweening problems of racial discord and dissent about the Viet Nam war. Europe is the area in which he can best hope to make some quick and perhaps dramatic progress...
Kissinger is European by birth and a Europeanist by doctrine. For the U.S., he says, "international success or failure will ultimately be determined in the Atlantic area." His constant theme in criticizing the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations' approach to the Atlantic Alliance was that they operated from insufficient understanding and flexibility. In his view, once the Marshall Plan had served its purpose and NATO was firmly established, American predominance made less and less sense. Washington's master plans for Western Europe became increasingly irrelevant. Why should not Charles de Gaulle pursue his own vision of a European third force...
...massive, inflamed abscess bursting with reddish-brown pus. The huge bubble of oil and natural gas boiling up from beneath the surface of Santa Barbara Channel at a rate of almost 1,000 gallons an hour spilled across the blue water for eleven days. It finally coated an area of at least 400 square miles and fouled 40 miles of incomparable beach front with acrid, tarlike slime. TIME Correspondent Robert Anson, flying over the despoiled sea, found the fumes noxious at 1,000 feet...
...chemicals dropped from planes and boats to disperse and dissolve the slick. Botanist Michael Neushul of the University of California recalled the 1957 breakup off Baja California of the tanker Tampico, which dumped 59,000 barrels of diesel oil into the Pacific and "utterly impoverished animal life" in the area for five years. In 1967, when the Torrey Canyon-carrying crude-spilled 100,000 tons into the English Channel, 90% of the animal loss was caused by detergents used to clean up the oil. As for Santa Barbara, Neushul figures that such grazing organisms as limpets and abalones...
...press conference on Saturday, the committee presented a statement saying, "We oppose the deployment of the Sentinel system, and in particular its location in the greater Boston area." The government has already begun work on a Sentinel missile installation at Camp Curtis Guild in Reading, Lynnfield and Wakefield, and on a radar site in North Andover. However, the Defense Department last week halted all work on such installations pending further study...