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...letter of recommendation. Nassau coach William Stevenson said Klein had filled a difficult position "without creating any power struggles." Klein was forced to leave because of a budget cutback...
...burden is valid. It is incongruous for the U.S. to maintain 300,000 troops in Western Europe 25 years after World War II; obviously, there should be a reduction. The Administration, in essence, agrees. But Nixon has a strong case for calling the Mansfield amendment precipitate. The U.S. cutback need not be as abrupt as Mansfield would have it; preferably, the President should be free to execute it at his own pace, winning whatever concessions he can from the East bloc...
...finds ways of sharpening its competitive strength by checking the American wage spiral and spurring research and development (instead of stifling it in some areas). For financial as well as other reasons, the U.S. needs to trim its military and political commitments around the world. But any such cutback will oblige Europe and Japan to do more to defend themselves and aid the underdeveloped world...
...Bretton Woods. A sharp cutback in U.S. military operations abroad would reduce the outflow of dollars, but it would frighten some of the very nations that protest American "dollar imperialism"-notably Germany, which feels that the presence of U.S. troops on its soil is necessary until there is a Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe. Reinstituting the tight-money policies and high interest rates of 1968 and 1969 would help the balance of payments, but would also abort U.S. recovery from last year's recession and throw many more Americans out of work...
...Federal Government cutback in funds for research-which resulted in bleak job opportunities for scientists-and the dissatisfaction among scientifically-minded students with the ivory-tower nature of most laboratory research have probably effected this change...