Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week opponents and supporters of ABM engaged in another exchange of paper missiles. The antagonists were acknowledged experts in their fields. Their arguments, pro and con, were well reasoned. Even so, they brought the issue no closer to a political solution in Congress or a popular verdict in the nation. The reason is that neither the critics nor the advocates of the ABM can argue with any certainty just what kind of attack the Russians or the Chinese may be capable of mounting in the next decade...
Little by little, U.S. campus protest comes closer to resembling the compulsive mania of the recent Chinese "Cultural Revolution." Last week the spectacle seemed uglier than ever...
...French franc may be as much as 15% or 20%. Speculation in marks may subside for a while, as happened after the Germans refused to revalue last November. But as before, it will probably resume after a few months. Until the mark moves up and the franc moves down, closer to their real value, financial markets will remain unsettled...
...seven-member European Free Trade Association,* through which four-fifths of intra-Scandinavian trade currently passes duty-free. They plan to establish a customs union that will free all trade among Nordic countries and enact common external tariffs against non-EFTA members. Most important, they will work toward closer economic integration, including completely unrestricted flows of capital across borders...
...STILL, a closer examination of the situation reveals that Congress does not have nearly the power it pretends to have. The universities' rears of congressional intervention may be greatly exaggerated. One reason for this is the weakness of Congress in 1969, in a century in which political power has increasingly been flowing away from the Capitol. Another reason is the power of the allies of the universities--the permanent government (the federal agencies) and, for the most part, the President and his staff...