Word: musts
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Brown's piercing rejoinder was typical of his performance at the Senate hearings, where he has emerged as the most effective SALT seller. While Brown has urged approval of the accord, he stressed that U.S. military forces must be bolstered to offset Moscow's continuing arms buildup. That SALT II would be no substitute for accelerated U.S. defense spending was argued even more strongly by five other witnesses, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Chairman David Jones warned the Committee against "the risk that SALT II could be allowed to become a tranquilizer to the American people." Said...
...when dissension comes to be regarded as intolerable. Democracies must work in a tension between unity and dissent, majority rule and minority rights. But some underlying consensus about common direction is necessary, and that is now difficult to locate. "The lack of leadership is effect and not cause," says Historian Eugene Genovese. "It would be very difficult to point out a set of values about which you could say that most Americans could agree. I think our society has become largely purposeless...
Through instinct, knowledge, persuasion, intelligence, craft, ex ample, patience, inspiration and compromise, they must construct a new American consensus...
...nations, it is true, there is firmer leadership than half a decade ago. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's new Prime Minister, has taken a decisive, confident line, though her countrymen must wait to see where it leads. Germany's Helmut Schmidt and France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing govern their countries with an effective margin of strength and popularity...
Washington Political Columnist David Broder believes that "we are a nation between clarifying ideas." The endlessly westward-expanding land became a model for the ever booming industrial and technological republic. Now America must formulate a new philosophy that acknowledges the reality, even the desirability, of limitations, of more intelligent, creative, careful use of its endowment. Many believe that a new generation of leaders is now working at the next "clarifying idea." Says former U.S. Commissioner of Education Ernest Boyer: "Conditions are building that will revitalize leadership. People are not willing to live endlessly with ambiguity. There is something within...