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...Vietnam as well. he said he did not rule out the possibility but pointed out that the United States "contributes to these various multilateral institutions because it sees them to be in long-term American interest . . . We would not contribute to multilateral assistance which would permit a country to divert more resources toward its military." Copyright 1971-Dispatch News Service International
...boom-boom-boom." One of the most powerful arguments that black leaders quite properly use to discourage rioting is that violence would only bring about a renewed right-wing backlash, cancel much of the move toward moderation that was evident in last November's elections, and divert attention from the call for social reform to the demand for law-and-order...
...recent days, a concerted effort has been made, by a group of members of this University, to divert attention from recent violations of freedom of speech through a campaign against Professor Huntington. All of us, even these who disagree most sharply with Professor Huntington's views on the Vietnam war and with his policy recommendations, express our indignation at the claim by any group of self-appointed vigilantes to the right to pillory those whom they choose to designate as "war criminals." We assert our determination to protect academic freedom, and most specifically, Professor Huntington's or any other teacher...
...nation is consuming most rapidly the fuel of which it has least. It derives 43% of all energy from burning oil, but oil constitutes only 5% of domestic fuel reserves. What else should the U.S. use? Coal reserves are gigantic, and some coal men argue that Washington could profitably divert much of the money that it spends on nuclear-power research to study ways to take the sulfur out of coal smoke. But even if coal could be cleaned up, the cheapest method of digging it out of the earth is strip mining, which turns large expanses of natural beauty...
...also could route Alaskan oil to the Midwest by building a pipeline through Canada's Mackenzie River valley (TIME, March 29). This would encourage exploitation of Canadian oilfields that lie along the route. As a quid pro quo, the U.S. would have to make some guarantee to divert Venezuelan or domestically produced oil to Eastern Canada if Arab nations shut off Mideast oil. Eastern Canada is not connected by pipeline to the oilfields in the Canadian West and the Arctic, but buys Mideast crude because it is cheaper...