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...was outraged??by Michelle Cottle's article, in which she confessed she wasn't much of an environmentalist until now, when she is pregnant [April 18]. What selfishness! Is it all right then to destroy the environment as long as it affects only those who are out of the womb? Preserving the environment has to be humankind's top priority at all times. Conserving what we have requires a careful balancing of benefits and costs, plus modulated change. With allies like Cottle, who needs enemies...
...problem that Washington simply did not try hard enough? That would hardly seem to be the case, judging from the outraged???and ever so slightly hypocritical?howls from delegates whose arms had been twisted. Yet a senior U.N. official noted that if the vote had been a matter "of life or death, the U.S. could have squeezed the delegates much harder. That it failed to do so indicated that while Washington did want to win, it was not prepared to squander all of its political credit to do so. The fact that Nixon took no part in the U.N. effort...
...revelations of the Pentagon papers angered war critics on Capitol Hill, who claimed vindication for their long-held feeling that Congress had been misled by the Executive Branch. "These documents," fumed Idaho Democrat Frank Church, "secure Johnson's position as a liar." Declared Maryland Republican Charles Mathias: "I am outraged???but I'm worn down with outrage." Yet the Congress made no immediate move to grasp control of the war from the Nixon Administration...
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