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...journalist dealing with heads is caught in a strange dilemma. The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without firsthand experience is a fool and a fraud...
Carter feels that as deeply as any President-maybe more so-and yet his dilemma in some ways is greater. The adversary is stronger, his own nation more in doubt about its strength...
...equal economic damage on each other, Washington and Moscow might pause and decide to start negotiating. This, at least, is the argument for having a capability for waging limited nuclear war. It could buy time and prevent Washington from facing, at a moment of confrontation with the Kremlin, the dilemma of having either to capitulate or to order a massive atomic attack. But there is an obvious, enormous danger. Once the military nuclear threshold is crossed, there is no guarantee that the momentum can be controlled to keep the exchange limited. Warns Secretary Brown: The use of "any nuclear weapons...
...within the prescribed quotas for military manpower and non-nuclear weaponry, West Germany also built a standing army of 489,000?the largest, best-equipped and most disciplined in Western Europe and second only to the U.S. and Turkey in the NATO alliance. That military machine faces an enduring dilemma: it has to be strong enough for the defense of Central Europe, but never so strong as to provoke the Soviet Union's obsessive fear of a renascent, militaristic West Germany. "We must be cautious," says Defense Minister Hans Apel. "Neither in Eastern nor Western Europe can we create...
...Students see the assembly as a playground for Government majors, and the administration doesn't care what undergraduates think anyway," Steven V.R. Winthrop '80, former chairman of the Student Assembly, says ruefully. His comment sums up the dilemma that has plagued the assembly since its inception--its place in the Harvard community. After one year of existence, the assembly is still searching for an identity and trying to convince students of its legitimacy. Critics of the assembly charge that it lacks both credibility with students and effective input into Harvard's administrative structure--perennial problems of student government...