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Calculated Risk. In an effort to assess the promises and perils of Brandt's Ostpolitik, TIME Associate Editor David Tinnin spent the past three weeks in Washington, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow. The following conclusions emerged...
...month temporary tours of duty in Laos, or CIA men who spend their nights in Thailand but commute daily to Long Cheng. Many of them are Green Berets who have completed their Army service and signed up as "spooks." American casualties in Laos are equally difficult to assess. The Pentagon will say only that since 1961, the U.S. has lost 193 air crewmen-Army, Air Force and Navy-over Laos, chiefly while bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It is not known whether the missing men have been captured or killed...
...Although the practice is uncommon in federal district courts, judges may assess certain costs of prosecution against convicted criminal defendants, except in a capital case...
...asked Kahn to assess the current political situation at Harvard in light of the various sets of disciplinary decisions this fall. Kahn said, "I thought it was very restrained. I think that's probably a good thing. I don't like people beating up other people. But I think it's good the Administration has come so far from tossing people out firmly. I don't like seeing people kicked out unless they are kicked out for acts of violence deemed criminal felonies." He said he would not define the verbal taunting of Dean May at the third University Hall...
Government's first priority is to enact environmental standards?and then enforce the law. Regulatory agencies should do far more to assess new products and policies before they harm man and nature. At all levels, governments must join in regional attacks on air and river pollution that cross political boundaries. At the federal level, the maze of agencies with conflicting environmental responsibilities must be reordered. While the Agriculture Department pays farmers to drain wetlands, for example, the Interior Department pays to preserve them. Worse, the farm-subsidy program encourages the misuse of toxic chemicals, one-crop farming that destroys ecological...