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...build a bomb, but how to go about finding out how to build a bomb. The parallel is striking. The atom bomb taught us that all science is not necessarily good, that new techniques that are not necessarily better than old techniques, that knowledge is at best morally neutral, not always right...
Moreover, Washington has no blueprint for specific points of settlement. It believes that any solution must be worked out by the Pakistanis and the rebels, and that if mediation is necessary, it should come from a neutral entity like the U.N. Nor does the Administration have any intention of getting militarily embroiled, even though Pakistan has bilateral and multilateral (SEATO and CENTO) alliances with the U.S. The defense treaties, officials emphasized, are directed only against Communist aggression...
...consider him unimaginative, vacillating and not at all impartial. Specifically, they accuse him of dithering during the 1967 Middle East war, of doing nothing about the India-Pakistan crisis, and of continually criticizing the U.S. role in Viet Nam. "Look, no one can expect a guy to be totally neutral -he'd have to be inanimate," says one such critic. "But he certainly can be impartial, and that possibility altogether escaped U Thant...
...curriculum is all business. "We start with the basics," she says, "positions and formations." Already her pupils are at ease with such knowing terms as flares and neutral zones. To help them one-up their friends, Mrs. Laurini tosses in such statistical tidbits as the average height and weight of defensive tackles in the league...
...South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque. An earnest revival preacher loses his audience after a child asks to have his mother cured of a hangover. There are ugly girls with names like Glynese or Carramae and crones like Mrs. Freeman of Good Country People, who "beside the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone had two others, forward and reverse...