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A much stronger objection is that an official price increase would tend to give gold a continued undeserved prominence in world finance. Most economists-and the Nixon Administration-believe that the role of gold should be reduced, or even eliminated, in any long-range overhaul of the international monetary system...
The LMDC charged that the three men are being subjected to "unwarranted harshness" and contended that they will have served out their six-month sentences before appeal proceedings are completed. The men were found guilty of refusing to bear arms when they claimed conscientious objection status last February.
Even in our permissive society, many people would reply that prostitution is not like the other vices. The familiar objections are social (it spreads crime and disease), paternalistic (it corrupts youth) or aesthetic (it befouls whole districts with its invitations to debauchery). But the most fundamental objection is simply that...
There is, moreover, a lamentable disproportion between the money deployed on buying art and the money available for preserving masterpieces that cannot, by their nature or circumstances, be sold -unmovable art like buildings, frescoes, or even entire cities of cherishable antique beauty. Only a spectacular disaster like the Florence flood...
Despite his hawkish pronouncements, he was essentially a reflective and circumspect man. He profoundly feared the outbreak of World War III, and this guided him in many of his decisions. The Viet Nam War overshadowed his earlier efforts to get the military to accept the nuclear test ban treaty. It...