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Although Nixon describes this as part of "a new policy on the part of the U.S. in assuming the initiative," the main U.S. thrust continues to be toward agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a solution to the Arab-Israeli impasse. Nixon's men also intend to make bilateral probes of French and British attitudes through their delegations at the U.N. When the four-power talks eventually take place, the U.S. wants to make sure that it does not find itself on the short end of a three-to-one international line-up over the Middle...
...first major book, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, he said that limited nuclear war was containable and therefore conceivable. He later backed away from that theory; yet for a time colleagues mirthfully referred to him as "Dr. Strangelove, East" (Physicist Edward Teller held the Western title). But his main argument, which eventually became U.S. policy, was that the old massive-retaliation approach of the middle-'50s was irrational because it offered no real alternative between surrender and wholesale annihilation: "It does not make sense to threaten suicide in order to prevent eventual death." John Foster Dulles' policies in general seemed...
...main beneficiaries would be state and municipal hospitals and welfare agencies, which could collect about $60 million. Another $20 million would go to competing antibiotic makers, private hospitals and other claimants. For the first time in an antitrust settlement, individual customers could also collect-if they can prove their purchases between 1953 and 1966 by presenting prescriptions and sales slips to state agencies. Most likely, few would be able to do so, and the agencies would thus keep most of the funds. Drug executives warned, however, that unless practically all of the 81 claimants accept their share...
Despite its incalculable tragic dimensions, the drama of the European Jew remains elusive to all but a handful of films-notably The Shop on Main Street and The Fixer. By being frankly fictional, both films create their own transcendent reality. By trying to be real, The Song and the Silence sings false, proving Santayana's perception: we have to change truth a little in order to remember...
...literary form-the novel of youthful escape and adventure. From Huckleberry Finn to On the Road, the characters in such stories yearn for joyful freedom; their picaresque progress becomes a disapproving comment on the society they are trying to flee. Forced back into confrontation with that society-as the main characters in Irving's fine first novel are-they tend to dream up quixotic schemes for drastically revising the world they hoped to reject. In this case, the reform involves an inspired plan to liberate all the animals in Vienna's Hietzinger...