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...during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including use of atomic weapons, will be employed to inflict maximum destruction of enemy forces," the memo says. (Eisenhower later admitted to using nuclear brinkmanship to move along U.S.-Chinese negotiations.) BTW: The memo -- one of only 30 numbered copies -- was one of 44 million WW II, Korean and Vietnam war documents recently declassified by President Clinton, one of the biggest...
...addition, at last Wednesday's meeting, the masters proposed reducing the maximum size of a first-year blocking group from twenty students to eight students...
...meeting Monday night, members of the Undergraduate Council's student affairs committee, responding to the concerns of the masters, recommended reducing the maximum size of a block to 16, said Justin C. Label '97, the committee's chair...
...newly-empowered Republicans praised Greenspan and hinted that they may give him what he has long desired: the freedom to pursue monetary policies without particular concern for full-employment policies. Currently, the Fed's directive -- in force since 1978 -- requires the central bank to pursue the aim of maximum employment, stable prices and moderate, long-term interest rates. But Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), future chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said today that he would "seek to remove all aspects of employment and economic control from the Fed's mandates." The Economic Strategy Institute, a liberal think tank, called...
Responding to the concerns of house masters, members also recommended that the maximum size for blocking groups be reduced from...