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Repugnant. Far more is at stake, both for the nation and for Richard Nixon's re-election prospects, than a disagreement over the best psychological approach toward the economy. Nixon's insistence that the danger signs can be ignored, that no firmer action is needed to reduce unemployment and stop inflation, is at least partly based on principle. He considers the application of Government muscle or the imposition of wage and price controls philosophically repugnant to a free economy and impractical to administer as well. Yet the result is what amounts to tacit White House acceptance...
...Certainly not the South Koreans. To be sure, they would like firmer guarantees of U.S. support in the unlikely event that North Korea's Kim II Sung decides to move from his pinprick attacks along the 38th parallel to an all-out assault. But they will be receiving some $750 million from Washington over the next five years to modernize their 620,000-man military force-and to ease the pain of the withdrawal, possibly by 1975, of the 42,000 U.S. troops remaining on their soil...
...abortive program, Project Nassau, involving a projected invasion of Haiti. Now Stanton offered only the film used and a transcript of the show. He refused to give over other material, claiming that would compromise freedom of the press. Had the show involved confidential sources, Stanton would have been on firmer ground. As it was, he could only argue: "If newsmen are told that their notes, films and tapes will be subject to compulsory process so that the Government can determine whether the news has been satisfactorily edited, the scope, nature and vigor of their news-gathering and reporting activities will...
...sound is all. The picture is in the mind and there it is allowed to be what you wish. It can be beautiful if it is your own creation. Singing with the Black Flack Walbach Pack, or yakking with the nymphs of Holmes, holding firmly to love, and even firmer to an honest method of conversation with myself makes a substantial basis for potential creativity. I hope...
...library than behind a neighbor's barn," he wrote. But with pornography what it is today, parents may wonder whether their daughters are not actually better off behind the barn than in the library or at the movies. Even liberal Americans may want to set firmer limits on what their daughters-and sons-will be able to see and read. This should be possible without otherwise blocking the free traffic of ideas...