Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet Nam...
Another issue calling for prompt action concerns the Viet Nam war. Nine suits brought by a total of some 489 reservists seek to have the court declare unconstitutional the 1966 Act of Congress under which they were ordered to Viet Nam. They claim, in part, that Congress cannot give the President such powers in the absence of a formal declaration of war or a national emergency. Justice Douglas ordered a delay in their departure to Asia. But the court majority, which has been reluctant to decide issues involving the legality of the war, is not likely to find much merit...
THROUGHOUT U.S. history, the national economy has been the permanent political issue. This year, partly because Americans feel relatively prosperous and partly because they are preoccupied by concern for law and order and the Viet Nam war, the economy has not become a major topic of campaign contention. Yet many-some would say most-of the problems that the new President will face are deeply entwined with economics. Without making big headlines, both Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey have placed themselves on record in considerable detail about the direction of the economy. Though both men are moderates in their attitudes...
...security pensions over the next four years, a boost that would ultimately cost $12 billion a year. Since all that money must come from somewhere, Humphrey is considerably less emphatic than Nixon in asserting that this year's 10% income surtax should expire as soon as the Viet Nam war can be ended...
...Hentoff programs it in I'm Really Dragged but Nothing Gets Me Down, is going from resentment to resistance. The book is an attempt to put a little chest hair on that artificial category of literature known as "young-adult novels." Hentoff injects such themes as Viet Nam, racism, generation gap, civil rights, drugs, black rage, white guilt and, for old times' sake, a touch of antiSemitism. Sex is still a nono, although the vocabulary is raunched up with such words as "bastard," "damn it," and "hard...