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...over the idea that the United States continues to be as wealthy and generous as it was during the early postwar years when it provided Japan with economic aid. Japan is now a prosperous country, and her economy has grown to such a point that she can afford to discard her self-serving economic policy for one which will benefit both herself and the rest of the world...
...Please do not discard this letter. It is not a fan letter, so I will appreciate it if you read through...
This enables us to see how thoroughly bourgeois the assumptions of even political radicals are. For fight it as we do, the belief that personality transcends politics is tied up with the very basis of our thinking. We could no more discard that belief than we could our sexual urges. Yet that belief is as ideologically charged as, say, the belief in the inevitability of class conflict. It is essential to capitalist rhetoric. To enshrine it artistically is to vitiate the power of any contending political and moral principles. When the issues are cast in these terms, however implicitly...
...impasse at the Paris talks is now history. It is time for Americans to discard their wartime grudges. As you commented on January 31, we all make mistakes. And as your National Security Affairs adviser remarked, none of us holds any monopoly over morality. Why, then, do you continue to insist that draft evaders be punished by the courts? Are you not thereby demanding that everyone acknowledge that your conduct of the Vietnam war was legal? The Supreme Court has never been willing to rule on the legality of the war which Congress has never declared...
...Rocket Vehicle Applications). It consists of a small nuclear reactor that heats liquid hydrogen until it is expelled as a jet of white-hot gas. To kick out of earth orbit (which requires much less thrust than an earth launch), the 270-ft.-long ships will fire-and then discard-the two outboard NERVAs strapped to their sides; the main booster, at the center of the engine cluster, will be retained. Then, as the two ships pull away from earth orbit, they will be docked end to end to form a single unit within which the crews can pass back...