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...against Communist targets, including long-range artillery emplacements just above the Demilitarized Zone. South Vietnamese intelligence officers believe that an early February Communist flare-up had been planned but was put aside so that Communist negotiators in Paris could make a show of seriously considering President Nixon's eight-point peace proposal...
...Crimson dominated the second half until 11:09, when the turnovers and fouls gave the advantage to Merrimack. Playing an efficient, controlled game the Gold quickly moved out to an eight-point lead...
...revived debate about the Viet Nam War grew intense and rather nasty last week. Administration acrimony was aimed at all the Democratic presidential contenders who have challenged President Nixon's eight-point peace plan, but especially at the Democratic front runner, Edmund Muskie. To Nixon's chagrin, Muskie had suggested a peace plan that went beyond his own; it would call for a fixed U.S. withdrawal date and urge the Saigon leaders to "move toward a political accommodation with all the elements of their society"-with the implicit threat of a U.S. aid cutoff if Saigon refused...
...week after President Nixon revealed his eight-point Viet Nam peace proposal, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie pronounced the plan unworkable and set out his own formula for getting the U.S. out of the war. Instead of Nixon's stipulations-a cease-fire throughout Indochina and new South Vietnamese elections-Muskie said that the U.S. should simply set a firm pull-out date in return for the safety of withdrawing forces and the release of American prisoners of war, leaving Saigon to work out its own accommodation with the Communists or else forgo further...
...quite arbitrary. Performance, motivation and thoughtfulness are all probably more important that I.Q., and recognition of this would call for changes in society which Herrnstein ignores. Second, Herrnstein has not demonstrated satisfactorily that I.Q. is predominantly determined by genetics. Improvement of prenatal care in poor families gave an eight-point rise in I.Q. in one study, and other studies have shown I.Q. gains of 40 and 50 points after enriching the environment of poor children...