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Dates: during 1960-1969
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If Nixon's ABM announcement dashed hopes that he would drastically cut back military spending, his restrained response-or non-response-to the Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Squeeze on Viet Nam | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

While West Germany will probably ratify the treaty, NPT poses a special problem for Bonn. Formerly, international pressures appeared sufficient to keep the Germans from building atomic bombs-indeed, in 1955 they renounced any such intention. Now, however, some German political leaders, notably Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, are having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Nonproliferation Treaty: Another Step | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Systematic Slaughter. That is what they have been getting of late. Last week Hickel make a brief, bravura-like foray into the Florida Everglades to expose an impending natural disaster-the extinction of the American alligator (Alligator mississipiensis). One of 87 species threatened with extermination in the U.S., alligators are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Apprentice Noah | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Ghetto Green Space. Animal protection is not the only area in which Hickel is showing a conservationist's concern. Since the oil-slick disaster off Santa Barbara, Calif., Hickel has drastically curbed drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. He plans to enlarge the nearby Channel Islands National Monument'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Apprentice Noah | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Columbia's attempts to expand its athletic plant have been as disheartening as the Lions' results in team competition. The latest disaster in New York was the collapse of a bubble-type facility, similar to Harvard's.

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Columbia Bubble Bursts And Is Buried by Snow | 3/18/1969 | See Source »

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