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Social Peace. Stehlin's assessment was perceived as a vicious stab at the national honor. Gaullist Party Leader Alexandre Sanguinetti howled that his remarks were "an aggression against the nation as a whole." As a result of the furor, Stehlin was forced to resign as vice president of the Assembly, and last week the government ordered him to retire from the air force reserve...
...such times that I would like to label the anguishing defeat a historic contest and have done with partisan furor forever. But a conversion to such intellectual detachment would mean the adoption of other, more alien, sensibilities. Judging from the nature of disinterested baseball lovers at Harvard, I suspect I would have to learn how to read only those box-scores that are over ten years old, to develop a compassion for the charred skeleton of Connie Mack Stadium, to preserve the line- ups of the Hitless Wonders and the Whiz Kids, to prepare a comparison of Satchel Paige...
...should be made to tighten their belts more than others because they "waste" so much energy. The U.S. so far has balked at the British and German arguments, probably because the American officials fear what a cutback would do to an already weakened economy. Congress would also raise a furor over really strict conservation measures...
...visiting in Charleston, W. Va., during the height of the furor over textbooks, and it was truly a frightening experience. Voices of reason there will tell you that most of the books under attack are used in classrooms all across the country. They were carefully selected by professional educators, who surely are better qualified to judge than fundamentalist preachers and their wives. Truth, justice and Christianity, not to mention education, will not be served if the book burners have their way. Mrs. Therell Anscott Atlanta...
PRESIDENT FORD'S admission, in his September 16 press conference, that the United States had intervened in Chile's internal affairs with the intent to "destabilize" the democratically-elected government headed by Salvador Allende--and the international furor which had resulted from previous unofficial disclosures--may well, ironically enough, have had a positive effect on American foreign policy. Ford's blundering explanation of American activities in Chile was a remarkable example of political naivete. When asked whether intervention in another nation's internal affairs designed to weaken the foreign government could be justified under international law, and whether the Soviet...