Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this work is jeopardized if the intelligence community is unreasonably weakened by public attacks. Policymakers and intelligence officials abroad are especially worried that outside pressures could all but incapacitate the CIA. They fear that Americans are too susceptible to periodic bouts of moral outrage, that they fail to understand their cherished democratic freedoms must be protected from a world that in large part does not cherish them. Appearing on the David Susskind Show in January, Jack Fishman, a British expert on intelligence, said he was "appalled by the way the American public is falling into the trap of slandering...
Policymakers sometimes fail to use sound intelligence when it is offered. President Johnson disregarded the discouraging CIA reports on Viet Nam; they were not what he wanted to hear. The White House rejected CIA warnings of a Middle East war in 1973. Why would the Arabs want to start a war they could not win? reasoned the policymakers. It did not occur to them that the Arabs could win something just by fighting better than they had the last time...
...harm to man so far seems negligible, the very fact that such nuclear space accidents occur is chilling. For all the talk of "fail-safe" systems, as man hurls more and more lethal nuclear power plants into space, the probability increases of further, and much more harmful, "space age difficulties...
...Russians fail in the Arctic and the Soviet Far East, they would be forced to turn to the Middle East for supplies. That prospect deeply worries Pentagon planners, who fear that Soviet involvement in the Horn of Africa stems from Moscow's desire to control choke points along the tanker routes that carry oil to Western markets. The Saudi rulers and the Shah of Iran share concern that the Kremlin might resort to force to secure new supplies. For all parties concerned. the best solution by far would be for the Soviets to succeed brilliantly in their Arctic efforts...
...interested students to agree on such a broad topic as student government. Before anything substantial will be accomplished, we all need to listen more and not just to try to drive particular points home." Prewitt says he believes it would be "disastrous" for future Harvard undergraduates if the convention fails. "I don't think students realize how serious this is," he says. "The students must not be divided on the question of student government. If our efforts fail, the future of any type of student government at Harvard will be quite dismal...