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There was indeed much hard probing to be done on the Communist offer. On what timetable exactly did the Communists plan to release the prisoners? And would the U.S. have to drop all its plans for helping Saigon with military aid? "If you interpret it literally," said one skeptical Washington official, "then you'd have to take away the weapons we've already given them...
...have banned aid to colleges too; Justice Byron White, the lone supporter of school-level aid, argued that if colleges meet the Allen and Walz tests, schools do also. Their disagreements lead some legal experts to wonder whether the court's "entanglement" standards might prove as troublesome to interpret as its various definitions of obscenity...
...that spelled out once again the President's conservative philosophy: the Executive Branch should move no further nor faster in the area of civil rights than the courts compel. Thus while Nixon vowed to enforce vigorously legislation and Supreme Court rulings already on the books, he chose to interpret those laws narrowly. He carved out careful distinctions between racial and economic discrimination and shifted the initiative for fair-housing regulation from the Federal Government to local communities...
...further lowering of trade barriers is indeed necessary. But the Washington line has two deficiencies. Connally has made no hint of reciprocal U.S. trade concessions, and Europeans resentfully interpret his talk as a challenge to start a knock-down fight on trade. Though trade is important, monetary reform is, too. Even in an ideal world of unrestricted trade, the present monetary system is too rigid and dated to stand unchanged...
...word and to preach the gospel of locker-room dissent. That Scott has done. After teaching a course called "Intercollegiate Athletics and Education: A Socio-Psychological Evaluation" at the University of California at Berkeley last year, he founded his nonprofit institute to hold seminars, publish a newsletter and "help interpret what's going on in sport and make it what it can and should be." His new book, called The Athletic Revolution (Free Press; $3.45), is long on rhetoric and short on solutions, but its compilation of articles, speeches and case histories is nonetheless the most penetrating...