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Whether they are able to exert a continuing influence on policy under President Nixon may prove to be a matter of some importance to the future of this country. Their weak, even marginal, position with the GOP, their political rootlessness within the party of the rich and the wellborn, suggests that the GOP liberals may not have much effect on the crucial decisions to be made on Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the problems of the cities. Ultimately, the Ripon people and the Republican liberals whom they represent may encounter once again the fundamental problem facing men who enter...
...desire for student power, while scarcely articulated as a cause for seizing the campus buildings, was a powerful element of the explosion. Discussion since the uprising has focused upon the methods by which students may exert more influence upon the government of an institution of which they are vital and integral parts. Participation in self-government is a natural human desire that today's students feel with greater urgency, particularly at institutions with highly selective admissions policies because they are much better educated than their predecessors, more sophisticated, in many respects more mature, and more interested in social problems than...
...invasion of Hungary and the unseemly quarrel with Communist China-but the Soviets have up to now managed to maintain their ideological primacy. Now, after three weeks of continuing protest among Communists abroad over the invasion of Czechoslovakia, there is a serious question about how long Russia can exert that primacy over the minds of the world's many millions of Moscow-oriented Communists...
...very rim of South Viet Nam, where they could operate with impunity at close range. But beyond such specific worries, U.S. military leaders also weigh a bombing pause in terms of momentum and morale. The air campaign is the only part of a frustrating war in which the allies exert control over the tactical situation and the pace of the action...
...Elmer A. Anderson finished first in a competition for the medical directorship of a Los Angeles County hospital, but then the County Human Relations Commission had to exert pressure to get him appointed. Anderson believes that staff discrimination hurts doctor and patient alike. "If a doctor has a patient who needs some special treatment that he cannot provide, he not only loses that patient to another doctor, but in many cases he loses contact with the whole family as well. Not getting on a staff hurts a man's ego and destroys the relationship between patient and doctor...