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...difficulty us ing up their allotments of Salk vaccine, and last week 17 states (twelve of them in the South) turned back 2,430,000 shots, largely because schools had closed before adequate supplies became available. In North Carolina the state medical society took the more vigorous step - it deter mined not to turn the vaccine back, but to put it to work. When the blitz began, only about a third of an estimated 1,935,000 Tarheels eligible for the vaccine (all under 20, and pregnant women) had re ceived it. Guilford County, which had a better-than-average...
...recommending settlement of the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir. Said he: "A military alliance is backing one country, namely Pakistan, in its dispute with India." He pointed to the sudden rash of skirmishes on the Pakistan border. These show, he said, that Pakistan wants U.S. arms not to deter an aggressor but to settle its disputes with India "from a position of strength." Arming of Pakistan poses "a terrible problem" for India: it will force India to spend money on defense that is badly needed for economic development...
...increase in mental discipline, however, should not be the Faculty's only consideration. In medical school, students will face a severe and restrictive discipline. What premeds really need is a chance to dabble in the arts before facing the rigors of medical school. Admittedly, the Biochemistry plan would not deter the study of liberal arts appreciably; Biology concentrators only have to take one half-course more than Biochemists in order to satisfy medical school requirements...
...other hand, if Israel were in possession of modern weapons, comparable in combat performance to arms available to Arab nations, aggression would be deterred. The principle that sufficient power to deter aggression is instrumental for the maintenance of peace is commonly recognized, and had been put forward by Mr. Dulles himself. A weak Israel would serve as an invitation to aggression that would increase the general turmoil in the region, which is only playing into Russian hands. On the other hand, by providing arms to Israel and thus deterring aggression, the general stability in the area would be advanced...
...cleavage we have described should be resolved by force. We shall never initiate violence. Moreover, we shall use our full influence to assure that Soviet efforts to inflame old antagonisms will not succeed in breaking the peace . . . Meanwhile, the society of free nations must retain the power needed to deter aggression. We recognize that such power should never serve as a means of national aggrandizement but only as an essential shield . . . We shall help ourselves and others to peace, freedom and social progress, maintaining human rights where they are already secure, defending them when they are in peril, and peacefully...