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Mutuality. For all the upbeat motions elsewhere, Richard Nixon's central foreign policy concern remained the swift extrication of the U.S. from Viet Nam on honorable terms. As the Paris negotiations limp on with no settlement in sight, Nixon's thinking has focused increasingly on scaling down the American presence in Viet Nam. Even a limited withdrawal could ease domestic political pressure, perhaps reduce casualties and serve as a peace initiative. But how to take the first step safely...
...tissue of fish feeding on lake-bottom life was found to contain several hundred to 2,000 parts of DDT per million; grebes and other diving birds died from eating the fish. The New York health department reports high concentrations of DDT in trout in the state's central and northern lakes. "What is happening in Lake Michigan is an indication of what to expect elsewhere," admits John Gottschalk, director of the bureau of sport fisheries and wildlife. "There will be a day, and it may not be until the year 2000, when we are the coho salmon...
...partners spend less than 6% of their gross national products on defense, v. the U.S.'s 10%. One consequence is that NATO has never met its defense goals. At present, NATO combat-ready troops, whose divisions are below full strength, are outmanned by Warsaw Pact forces along the Central European front...
...village traditions to make them a success. "Our revolution succeeds or fails not in the cities but in the countryside," Pattakos says. "The air in the cities is never as fresh as that in the country." Nor perhaps is the love of freedom so violent. Last week in the central-Greece village of Megalo Kalivia, 40 peasants were hurt and two score more arrested in a pitchfork battle with police. The battle flared over a strip of ground that the peasants have always used for sheep grazing. Those new eaters in Athens want to erect a meat-packing plant there...
While the Kuomintang has been successful in recruiting many Taiwanese in recent years, its leadership remains almost exclusively in the hands of aging mainlanders. Despite good intentions, the party congress did not appreciably change that pattern. The newly elected central committee includes twoscore fresh faces, but among its 150 full and alternate members, only 13 are Taiwanese. A new party advisory committee for the Gimo, who is also director-general of the Kuomintang, seats only one Taiwanese among its eleven members; the average age of that body is an august 75. The central committee list is headed by Defense Minister...