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...half million Chicanos, eighty per cent of whom live in cities. It is a monumental struggle-social, economic, political, educational, and psychological in nature-which has the no less ambitious goal of providing full self-determination for the Chicano people. It is a struggle which, though it wants to attain a fairly universal goal, will have to develop new forms and means to achieve it. It is not like the black struggle, nor like the European immigrants' nor even like those of Latin America, though it has gained inspiration from all of them. In short, it is adhering...
...then, it was not so surprising that Kissinger would consciously misrepresent the Administration's position. For it was part and parcel of great power diplomacy that one must lie and distort to attain one's ends. And in fact, it was Kissinger who-more than anybody else in the White House-perpetuated the myth to colleagues and friends that the United States was gradually extricating itself from Indochina and would continue to do so regardless of the circumstances. In private meetings with visitors-and in background sessions with the press-Kissinger continued to imply that American withdrawal would soon...
...float their currencies if they feel it essential. But floaters and nonfloaters should try to preserve the rates at which, say, marks and francs can be exchanged for each other, even as the mark's rate against the dollar rises-a goal easier to state than to attain. The Market nations may institute some exchange controls...
President Nixon said last night that American forces will remain in South Vietnam until all U.S. prisoners have been released and the South Vietnamese "attain the capacity to defend themselves...
Peace, like war, can attain a momentum of its own. This week, for the third time since the Middle East's guns fell silent seven months ago, a formal cease-fire between Egypt and Israel ran out. The two sides are still far from a formal peace, but they are growing used to an absence of war. Thus, when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat went before television cameras at Cairo's Kubbeh Republican Palace at the beginning of the week, he was expected to rule out a formal extension of the ceasefire, but to make it plain that...