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...memory of my half-brother, standing me on a ledge, aged about 6 or so exploring my private parts." The loathsome violations by a family member undoubtedly were the foundations for her evolution into a self-admitted "sexual coward," and possibly were connected to her first mental breakdown...
Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley: "Let's get it straight: Richard Nixon's resumption of the bombing is the logical, not the illogical, the honorable not the dishonorable, consequence of the breakdown of the negotiations in Paris as the result of North Vietnamese Mickey Mouse...
Equilibrium. A less dramatic but equally pertinent example of nature's shortcomings is its inability to recycle all the wastes it creates. One instance of such a breakdown of "ecological equilibrium" is the accumulation of tons of guano (bird excrement) along the coast of Peru. Indeed, he noted, it is only when man collects the guano for fertilizer that the nitrogen-and phosphate-rich material is eventually returned to the "biological cycle in the form of plant nutrient." Guano is not the only example of nature's garbage. Peat, coal and even oil are all organic materials that...
These scraps aside, there is no real evidence of strain be tween the President and his adviser, perhaps because a care ful reconstruction of the chronology of events in Paris and Saigon (see box, page 21) indicates both must share some responsibility for the breakdown in reaching an agreement. Kis singer seems to have underestimated the difficulty of the remaining "details" to be worked out. It was odd for a man of Kissinger's caution to have been so euphoric and expansive as he was on Oct. 26. His anticipation was too great, relying too much on what he called...
...Apparently anticipating a breakdown in the talks and a resumption of bombing by the U.S., Hanoi began evacuating the capital's schoolchildren to the countryside...