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...backward during the past five years. Moreover, nearly one in every two Americans regards national tensions as grave enough to "lead to a real breakdown in this country." There is a spreading lack of faith in both the nation's leadership and its institutions; only a small minority dismiss the national unrest as "the work of radicals and troublemakers." A clear majority agrees that the U.S. must end the war in Viet Nam, even at the risk of a Communist takeover...
...only a few hundred spectators were on hand. Mrs. Huggins alternately smiled, wept and shook her head; Scale sagged low in his seat, eyes glazed. Then, in what seemed more a marriage ceremony than a murder trial, the two rose and embraced after the judge declared: "The motion to dismiss is granted in each case and the prisoners are discharged forthwith...
...admitted, however, that it had great difficulty in evaluating "the fragmentary nature of the evidence" which it was presented, and thus had to dismiss ten complaints "on grounds that the preponderance of evidence introduced at the hearings did not support the charge that the defendant had violated the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities...
...federal government, in arguments presented by Assistant U. S. Attorney William A. Brown, had filed a motion to dismiss the suit on the grounds the court lacked authority to waive the actions of the President and Congress in the conduct...
From the perspective of the '70s, it is all too easy to dismiss America's past isolationism as inevitably misguided and foolish. As Selig Adler points out in The Isolationist Impulse, the doctrine in many ways is "woven into the warp and woof of the American epic." From the very beginnings of the U.S., immigrants envisioned it as a way to a new existence. "They reasoned," Adler wrote of the colonists, "that God Himself had intended to divide the globe into separate spheres. America was the 'New Zion,' and Providence had severed this 'American Israel...