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...absence of immediate new weapons deployments, the business of arms control is tremendously complex. Past agreements, such as the 1963 partial ban on nuclear-test explosions, were reached only after long negotiations and after Moscow and Washington came simultaneously to the conclusion that potential benefits outweighed the risks. Distrust between the two nations remains basic and deep. Intelligence experts and strategists deal in short-range "estimates" and long-range "assumptions" on what the other side is doing now and might do later. Military and intelligence professionals tend to be pessimists, and hence hawks. China's nuclear development has added...
Following his unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination last year, South Dakota's Senator George McGovern won praise from fellow Democrats by endorsing and campaigning for Hubert Humphrey. Since then, however, kudos has turned to condemnation, gratitude to distrust. Powerful Southern Democrats have accused McGovern of trying to "ram proportional representation" down their throats. Northern machine bosses have accused him of widening, rather than closing, the splits within Democratic ranks. Even such liberal stalwarts as Edward Kennedy and Edmund Muskie are keeping him at arm's length...
...cities by hoodlums and a yearning for the pastoral life, some 1,000 hippies have settled around Taos-buying small plots of land, hand-fashioning adobe casas, and settling down to light farming. Along with their home-grown marijuana and vegetables, however, they have been reaping a harvest of distrust, misunderstanding and rejection-accompanied by sporadic violence. Hippies have been beaten. Their homes and "free stores" have been vandalized. Last month a hippie girl was gang-raped...
Whenever Shakespeare is presented in unaccustomed form, the question arises as to whether geriatric pills of restorative gimmickry have been administered, or whether the timely has retrieved the timeless. Kahn does not distrust the text. He simply looks into it with the sardonic eyes of a Brecht. The result is a play about war, heroism and patriotism colored in the mock-ironic hues of a generation that cannot believe in war, heroism and patriotism. In that light, valor may appear as cruelty and national honor as parochial vanity...
...said, in the administration's defense, that Harvard officials had a lot of things to do during April besides catering to the press. But the lack of professionalism which attended Harvard's treatment of reporters during the strike was just a symptom of a deeper and growing alienation and distrust between Harvard officials and reporters...