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...Your article "A Savage Challenge to Détente" [Aug. 30] made some rather flaccid remarks about American "legitimate spheres of influence" and the soundness of armed intervention in Southeast Asia and the Dominican Republic. But détente is a two-way arrangement. If we feel free to make war in a small country on the other side of the world, using as our excuse the "threat" of external subversion, then I think we're asking too much of the Russians if we expect them to restrain themselves whenever they believe their "legitimate spheres of influence" are endangered...
...polarizing effect of the Battle of Michigan Avenue spread everywhere. Speaking before the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany declared: "I know what you'd do with that dirty-necked, dirty-mouthed group." It troubles few workingmen nowadays that the American labor movement was founded upon protests, strikes and sometimes bloody battles with police...
...From Détente to Defense. Many Western leaders are frankly concerned that the Soviets-because of a power struggle within the Kremlin or growing desperation at the rise of liberal trends in Eastern Europe and within the Soviet Union-have embarked on a course of aggression that might get out of their own control. As a result, the West had no choice but to reconsider all the efforts of recent years premised on coexistence and peaceful competition with the Communists...
...their own. They went on to win, giving Colavito, who ranks 15th among the all-time home-run hitters (372), his first major-league pitching victory. Rocky the Reliever is more than likely to appear again. Says Manager Houk: "He did a real fine job for us. I'd like to use him some more." Why not? The unknockable Rock still sports a career...
Hippies at Sea. Navigation is a sore point. "You'd be amazed at how many people think they can find their way around coastal waters with nothing but a highway road map," says one Coast Guardsman. Take the case of the New York boater who radioed last month that he was drifting powerless "somewhere in Long Island Sound." After fruitlessly combing the Sound with search planes and patrol vessels, the Coast Guard finally located him, three days later, 100 miles out in the open Atlantic. That man was lucky he had a radio. So many do not-like...