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There is no doubt that Former Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco is correct in his assessment that we are struggling through our Viet Nam guilt feelings and that the catharsis has taken its toll. Carter is a product of it. He began by rejecting many tokens of power and imperialism, even down to the way he dressed and spoke. His strategic sense, to the extent that anyone could figure it out, was to encourage a human rights campaign that would hold the perimeter of freedom even in the absence of a big Navy and an effective covert capacity...
...conserve oil supplies, while Treasury aides urged that the President say nothing for fear of spooking currency dealers abroad into dumping dollars. Yet it seemed more likely that a determined U.S. policy to conserve would strengthen the dollar by showing the world that the nation was taking steps to correct its trade deficit...
...Mingus's more alarming habits during the Jazz Workshop days was to stop his band in the middle of a performance in order to correct a mistake, rehearse a phrase, or simply berate his musicians. This probably accounted for much of his reputation as a fiery madman, but it made perfect sense to a man who saw jazz as a creative process rather than a finished product. Me Myself An Eye is hardly a climax to Mingus's long and valuable career, but, appropriately, it is ambitious enough to leave much work to be done. They say that Mingus died...
...aged T-34 tanks are vulnerable to the extremely accurate Sagger antitank missiles supplied to the Vietnamese by the Soviet Union in the past three years. The Chinese have nothing comparable to the Sagger. "This is one of their major combat deficiencies, which they are trying to correct by buying HOT (antitank) missiles from the French," notes one U.S. expert...
Finagle's Creed. Science is truth: don't be misled by facts. Finagle on corrections: When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place.−;Anonymous