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...spokesmen, by proclaiming a new era of peace, appear to make ludicrous claims for the present. But we should extend them the courtesy of acknowledging how reasonable these claims seem when compared to their nonsensical view of the past. If it appears, as Nixon had the gall to assert in January, that our involvement in the war was "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations," it is because Hanoi and the PRG have kept the U.S. from stablizing an illegitimate rightist regime in the South. America has gained nothing, while the PRG has gained official recognition...
Allen said that the Largey case has rekindled the determination of poor and working-class people to assert their strength and to "break the hold that the rich and powerful have over the courts, the police, and the government...
...each the Secretary-General, who once jokingly called himself a "secular pope," was quick to assert the authority of the world organization. At the height of the Suez crisis in '56, he dictated the first three pages of a plan for a special emergency force during lunch, had it completed before dinner. Over British and French vetoes in the Security Council and a Soviet offer to deploy its own troops, he managed to get it ratified by a majority of the General Assembly. U.N.E.F. was his most successful innovation. It served as the model for international forces...
...Post-Millennialists, as they are called, assert that the Second Coming will occur after the Millennium. To them, the Millennium itself is not a personal 1,000-year reign of Christ but rather the golden age of his church under which mankind would know unusual peace and prosperity. In the optimism of the 19th century, when this interpretation was most popular, many Christians felt that they were already in the Millennium. World history since then has convinced most of them otherwise, but a kind of modern Post-Millennialism has recurred among a few theologians who foresee mankind moving toward...
...public, the President began to get some other opinions on the merits of the bargain that Kissinger proposed to strike-from the State Department, the Pentagon, the White House staff. Not all were approving. Some of Nixon's old wariness in dealing with Communists may have begun to assert itself...