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FOREIGN POLICY. The new President was a steadfast cold warrior in the 1950s and a particularly hard-beaked hawk during the Viet Nam War. Yet when Richard Nixon began winding down U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and moving toward détente with the Soviet Union, Ford staunchly defended those policies on the floor of the House. He also approved Nixon's overtures to Peking, but concedes that he would not have made them had he been President then. "Not with my record of 23 years' opposition [to Communism]," he told a reporter. "But I approve...
...build barracks for the 500 naval personnel who will eventually be stationed there. Such an investment is necessary, contends the Pentagon, to counter the Soviet naval presence in the area, which now averages 30 ships; the U.S. presently has eight ships, including the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, there. The Russian presence is expected to increase even more with the reopening of the Suez Canal. Then the Soviet supply line, from its Black Sea bases to the Straits of Malacca, will shrink from 11,000 miles around the Cape of Good Hope to 2,200 miles through the canal...
...original scoring as it was caught by primitive sound systems. But the record devoted to the work of the music department heavies-Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman-stirs the sweetest nostalgic pangs. Only by hearing in isolation the sweeping romanticism of Korngold's Sea Hawk score or the brooding march Steiner used to drive the prospectors toward The Treasure of the Sierra Madre can one realize how much the music contributed both to the original success of these films and their afterlife in the mind. All by themselves, the themes evoke whole movies...
...people did not, Reston did. Vietnam became a private war for him. His hawk-self wrestled with his dove-self. The hawk-self feared communist expansion and thus supported the original premise of the conflict ("The original American policy in Vietnam was far easier to understand than the present one"--December 1, 1965 column). But the dove-self saw the wanton destruction of human lives ("How many more men and planes can we send there without turning the war into an American war and destroying the country we are trying to save?"--same column...
...deliverable. Russia has not only more launchers than the U.S. (see chart page 18), but bigger missiles?with up to 120% more throw weight. The U.S., however, has almost twice as many warheads on its missiles. Thus, as Harvard Professor Paul Doty puts it, "If you are a [U.S.] hawk, you argue throw weight, and if you are a dove, you argue warheads...