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...Glenna Brink Modesto, Calif...
...message turned out to be more startling than soothing: the FBI chief said that recently he himself had been pushed to the brink of resignation by the congressional investigations. Although details were not divulged, one committee apparently had demanded evidence that Kelley thought should not be handed over. Said a participant at the FBI meeting: "Kelley has told us in the past that he would resign if he were forced to comply with demands that he considered unreasonable. Well, he said that a few weeks ago he felt he was at that point. But he didn't quit because...
There is a still more alarming, if more remote prospect. Many of the poorest countries, though on the brink of mass famine, have enough resources and technology to produce atomic weapons. India exploded its first bomb 16 months ago; other states like Pakistan could follow suit. It is unlikely but not inconceivable that these economically desperate states, feeling they have nothing to lose, might try to use nuclear blackmail to get more help from the West. As Economist Robert Heilbroner writes in his highly pessimistic An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, "The resort to ultimate tactics is surely...
...provided for a six-month extension of present price controls, due to expire on Aug. 31. That action would have plunged the nation into abrupt decontrol, with definite inflationary dangers. Faced with that prospect, late last week both the Administration and its Democratic opponents abruptly pulled back from the brink...
...night Detroit police had again restored calm in the streets, still without firing a shot. In the 1967 rioting, 43 people died and property damage came to $64 million. This time two men were dead, 100 arrested, and property damage was comparatively minor. "We were pretty close to the brink," said Young, "[but] we're not going to let anybody tear up this city." Credit for that can go largely to Mayor Young himself...