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What kind of reception did the automobile get in its infancy? Let's not condemn superficially on the basis of a few thoughtless operators...
...that the Saigon authorities stop meddling with student activities in university buildings). Several were arrested and severely tortured. The student body responded with another wave of protests. Demonstrators poured into the streets. Then, the invasion of Cambodia sparked an escalation of the struggle; the students, demanding that the government condemn the Lon Nol regime's pogroms of Vietnamese in Cambodia, "liberated" the empty Cambodian embassy in Saigon. Militant peace banners ("We want peace, not solutions") appeared with increasing frequency during the mass protest marches...
Britain, too, is having second thoughts about the proposed sale of 188 Centurion tanks to Libya. British public opinion, already roiled by the prospect of a resumption of sales to South Africa, would strongly condemn the deployment of Centurions against Israel. But once again, Moscow may take up the slack if the British kill the sale...
Being a lawyer, Taylor is concerned with precedent. Being a humanist, he took seriously Justice Robert Jackson's famous Nuremberg remark that the example of a restraining law then applied to the Nazis would serve no useful purpose if it was not used to condemn aggression "by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment." Since alleged U.S. aggression in Viet Nam has lately been cited against the U.S. under the Nuremberg precedent by American soldiers refusing to fight, Tay lor set out to re-examine the war-crime concept with a view to fixing...
...most logical course would seem to be unilateral U.S. recognition of both Peking and Taipei. The "two Chinas" plan, however, would infuriate both Chinas. Taiwan would condemn the policy, though it would probably not break with the U.S. Peking would probably repudiate the move, convinced that the U.S. was trying to deny them Taiwan. The U.S. would thus be left with an alienated ally and an enemy even more antagonistic than before. Nevertheless, virtually all State Department Sinologists feel that a slow conversion to a "two Chinas" policy is the only worthwhile course open to Washington. They have been advocating...