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...Bonn, the first ever by a Soviet leader to West Germany. In the Russian view, the improving relations between Moscow and Bonn can only be further improved by Brezhnev's talks with Chancellor Willy Brandt. More important, perhaps, the Soviets feel that the time is ripe to extract increased practical benefits from the growing climate of detente...
...Antioch's experiments in educating the poor have led to serious financial and administrative strains that have aroused student militants. They struck the campus for six weeks last winter in support of cafeteria workers who had been laid off. Last week, scholarship students and their sympathizers picketed to extract a promise from trustees not to cut financial aid. College employees refused to cross picket lines to collect trash. As part of their protest, striking students piled it in front of the administration building. Professors could hold classes only in their own homes because militants refused to let them into...
...long-held belief that political, economic and defense issues should be directly linked together in consideration of U.S.-European partnership. It is an idea that has been strongly resisted by Western Europe, which suspects (with good reason) that the U.S. wants to use European defense needs as leverage to extract trade concessions. Brandt made it perfectly clear to Nixon that Western Europe still opposes the linkage approach. Mixing up the issues, he said, posed a danger of "poisoning relations in an area where it is not necessary...
...subterranean water. One proposal, under test by the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, involves sinking two side-by-side holes deep into the earth until they reach hot basement rock (approximately 1,000° F.). Then by pumping cold water into one hole, the scientists hope to extract steam from the other. Project Director Morton Smith reports that test borings to a depth of only 2,500 ft. (v. the final goal of 7,500 ft.) already have produced significant heating. Battelle Memorial Institute is proposing a similar experiment in Montana...
Much of the torture was intended to force "confessions" or extract information. Often prisoners were beaten until unconscious to get them to sign statements about the "humanity" of their treatment. U.S. officials figure that as many as 95% of the P.O.W.s captured before 1970 were tortured. Almost all broke. Said Navy Captain Allen Brady: "I never met a man with whom they were not able to gain at least some of their objectives." Most felt, as did Army Major Floyd J. Thompson, that "these propaganda statements just weren't worth dying...