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...ADDITION, Kissinger realized that the policy of threat would be a failure if Nixon could not appear unfettered by others-inside Washington and out-who had claims on the President's conduct of foreign affairs. In as early a tract as A World Restored, Kissinger had written that "the impetus of domestic policy is a direct social experience; but that of foreign policy is not actual, but potential experience-the threat of war-which statesmanship attempts to avoid being made explicit." In other words, popular opinion was little more than an encumbrance on those few who were capable of making...
...departed officials were hardliners, opposed to Sadat's flexible and apparently pacific foreign policy. Their removal could lend powerful impetus to the good will established between Washington and Cairo in the wake of Secretary of State William Rogers' visit two weeks ago. Such a development could only rattle Moscow's foreign ministry-and perhaps Jerusalem's as well...
ELLIOTT "discovered" Kissinger. He spent long hours with his young prodigy-the two would often read and grade master's theses written by Elliott's graduate students-and provided Kissinger with impetus for his career. With Elliott, Kissinger founded and directed Harvard International Seminar, through which about 40 mid-career people from foreign countries-writers and artists as well as scholars and politicians-visited Harvard for two months of the summer every year. (It was later discovered that several of the foundations financing the Seminar were secret conduits for CIA funds. Kissinger claimed not to have known of CIA support...
...Paul Zindel has done it. He has lived, written and worked as a high school chemistry teacher on the city's lightly populated borough in the bay, Staten Island. Until last week: with a Pulitzer Prize* as a letter of recommendation, and with the pride of bachelorhood as impetus, he boarded a ferry and moved to Manhattan...
Republican critics were ready for Boggs. He was attacked by Congressman Lawrence Hogan of Maryland, a former FBI agent. Hogan charged that Boggs had "failed completely" to produce any proof. Nonetheless, Boggs' speech contributed to the growing impetus in Washington for an investigation of the nation's premier investigators...