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...Hermann, "are a band of guerrilla fighters who do the bidding of the other side behind the backs of the government." Warning against a sellout to the Communists, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger derisively tagged the Free Democrats as the "Anerkennungspartei"-party of recognition. The Christian Democrats argue that recognition would imperil the security of isolated West Berlin by undermining the allied guarantees for the city, legalize the Communist hold on East Germany and sanction the permanent division of the country...
Some people in the Defense Department have proposed that the U.S. ignore confessions altogether. They argue that P.O.W.s should sign anything, as long as they do not divulge classified military information or imperil other prisoners. A well-publicized official policy to this effect would drain confessions of any real significance, in the manner of the disclaimer that preceded the Government's own "confession" last month that the Pueblo was inside North Korean waters...
...difficulty with such distinctions is that they are likely to work better on paper than in the field. A study committee headed by Pennsylvania's George Taylor has termed them "administratively impossible." Where do teachers fit, for example? Do strikes in the public schools imperil either the public health or safety? And where is the line drawn in the staffs of government hospitals? Are nurses more essential than, say, laboratory technicians? In any case, there are fluctuating degrees of essentiality that defy easy definition. New York City's transit strike turned intolerable within days. But this year, residents...
...violent one until all diplomatic channels have been thoroughly explored. "We are not going to shoot from the hip." Lyndon Johnson firmly warned his advisers last week. The President wants to avoid at all events any clash that might debilitate the nation's military strength and imperil his own political stance as a man of restraint. Yet as his critics are bound to point out, the all-encompassing eye that Johnson trains on domestic affairs should have been applied as closely to military and intelligence procedures before the Pueblo embarrassment. Though -after the event-the President took great care...
...either the "domino theory" or the argument that China might threaten U.S. security. Bobby was wrong on both counts. Two months before his death, John F. Kennedy was asked if he doubted the validity of the theory that a defeat in Viet Nam would imperil the rest of Southeast Asia. "No," he replied. "I believe it. I think that the struggle is close enough. China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that if South Viet Nam went, it would not only give them an improved geographic position for guerrilla assault on Malaya, but would also give...