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Canadian Debate. While the Soviet press handled Nixon's ABM announcement routinely, there was anxiety and outrage in Canada. Since the first Safeguard bases would be a few miles south of the Canadian border, and since Chinese or Soviet ICBMs would come in over the North Pole, the nuclear-armed ABMs sent to intercept them would probably be detonated over Canada. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was kept posted of Lyndon Johnson's Sentinel plans, but he was not informed in advance of President Nixon's switch to Safeguard. In an emergency debate in Ottawa, Socialist Leader Tommy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: DIGGING IN ON ABM | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...aggressive style of recruiting is new to the Harvard basketball program. In the pre-Harrison era, if a high school hoopster displayed the initiative to come to Harvard for an interview, he could probably meet the coach and some of the players. If he ware lucky, he might get a tour...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Coach Harrison Engaged In Busy Recruiting Drive | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

Until the acceptances come out next month, even Harrison won't know for sure what kind of a freshman team he'll have next season. But some of the other Eastern coaches already see the Crimsons a building power...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Coach Harrison Engaged In Busy Recruiting Drive | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, the question now is whether the Unites States wants to have peace in Vietnam or not. And let me remind those who think that peace can come with the continued American support of the present South Vietnamese government, that this support has already made many who would otherwise have been friendly, if no to say helpful to the United States, bitterly anti-American. Recently, professor Ly Chanh Trung of the University of Saigon, an ardent Catholic intellectual, was impelled to say the following words in a speech entitled "Why Do I Want Peace" delivered before...

Author: By Ngo VINH Long, | Title: South Vietnam An Angry Student Speaks Out About His Government | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

...seemed to many Californians to be a constant succession of campus explosions, more and more voters are itching for Reaganesque reprisals against the students. And when a poll was taken late last month, some 75 per cent of those same California voters said they thought the time had come for the governor to get really tough with the students who were wrecking the schools...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: A Little Balance | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

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