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Curle is tight-lipped on the negotiations between Ayub Khan and Shastri. When he was contacted--by the British and American Quakers with the "knowledge and consent" of the fighting governments, the U.N. and the State Department--the guns were silent, but barely so. Apparently one of his key objectives was simply to ease tensions. "We were able perhaps to convey expression of opinion which helped understanding a little," he says cautiously. Since there were a whole series of more formal mediation efforts in the works, Curle hesitates to claim credit for any specified accords. He feels, though, that...
...noted, conveniently forgot another strict interpretation of University rules in order to set up the Advisory Council in the first place. When students earlier this year were demanding a joint student-faculty committee to consider parietal rules, he replied that such a committee could not be formed without the consent of the Corporation. That committee he opposed; he thought the Advisoiry Council a fine idea, and it was set up without so much as a nod to the Corporation. It is ironic that his inflexibility in determining its membership should be making life a little harder...
...important force in winning political office in the U.S. is green power: the money required to publicize a candidate's views and persuade the voters that he is worthy of governing by their consent. Those who give the cash exercise a vital form of political expression: they provide a basic nourishment of democracy. "Money," says California Democratic Boss Jesse Unruh, "is the mother's milk of politics." Yet Americans remain deeply suspicious of the campaign spending essential to effective elections. They fear that political contributors buy political influence. They know that even the nation's greatest political...
...supply of hearts for transplantation will increase, Barnard predicted, when the public has been sufficiently educated so that relatives will give the necessary consent when someone has suffered a fatal injury. Christiaan Barnard's television appearances were calculated to win just such broader public acceptance of an idea that would have been greeted with universal horror only a month earlier...
...genre was launched a couple of decades ago by Upton Sinclair in his Lanny Budd novels and was developed with sharper expertise by Allen Drury with Advise and Consent and Fletcher Knebel with Night of Camp David and Seven Days in May. The success of such books depends on a measure of atmospheric authenticity to give readers the illusion that they are really being taken into White House bathrooms and Pentagon war rooms, and on suspense. Knebel, a former Washington reporter, is adept at providing both qualities, and therein lies the book's virtue...