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Recently retired NATO Commander Alexander Haig Jr. seconded this. Said he: "The global balance of power is viewed in Europe as shifting against us, and we can no longer ignore it." During a break in the hearing, Haig disclosed that "as of today, I could not go along with SALT II." While expressing firm doubts about the pact, he indicated that he might accept it if its ratification would mark "the turnaround of a perceived period of drift in U.S. leadership" and a commitment for a larger strategic arms budget...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. subscribes to his historian father's theory of the cyclical rhythm of national events. "We have periods of action and passion and reform," says Schlesinger, "until the country is worn out, and then periods of passivity, negativism, quietism." The first two decades of this century were periods of action. "Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson wore the country out." Then came the relative political torpor of the '20s, followed by the fierce activity of the '30s and '40s, the quietism of the '50s, then the eruptions of the '60s and early '70s. After the introversion...
...Brock Adams, the stubborn Secretary of Transportation. Carter has not yet settled on his successor, but his job will be filled temporarily by still another Southerner, W. Graham Claytor Jr., who was president of the Southern Railway Company until his appointment as Navy Secretary...
After two years of investigation and the expenditure of $5.4 million, the House Select Committee on Assassinations last week released a final, 686-page report on the murders of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The study finds, with an unseemly amount of fanfare and self-justification, that both assassinations were the result of "probable" conspiracies. But the committee's conclusion appears to have outstripped its evidence...
...committee's findings on the King assassination are equally suspect. The report speaks of a "likelihood of conspiracy" Unking a St. Louis patent attorney, now dead, and several associates with James Earl Ray Jr., the convicted slayer of King. Maybe so, but the committee offers no proof...