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Within an area one-third the size of the U.S., eleven major languages and countless dialects are spoken, 15 separate currencies are used, and starkly different governments, from parliamentary democracies to outright dictatorships, are in power. There are national loyalties, regional loyalties and local loyalties, often at odds with one another...
...that as it may, Kissinger's request of November would have been an outright insult to any reporter. Such requests are always mandatory before-not after-the fact, and are appropriate only in the case of private conversations, not general pronouncements. In effect, Kissinger was trying to suppress what legitimately belonged in the public domain...
...major result of the questionnaire seems to have been that it tied up and discredited the bureaucracy as a whole. The higher-level officials were now as shamed as their underlings, and entire agencies were seen in outright conflict. Further-more, the questions themselves were long and bulky-merely sorting out the answers required a major effort on the part of Kissinger's own staff. And by the time the series of National Security Study Memoranda-on Vietnam and on each of the remaining issues of foreign policy-had been completed, Nixon and Kissinger had already taken the crucial steps...
Neither Rick Barton of Quincy nor Joe Stiles of Winthrop-athletic secretaries of their respective Houses-wished to say with certainty which House would come out on top. "However," Barton said, "I don't see Quincy winning it outright. If it's close enough, Floyd may call it a tie. So few points difference after a year's work-it's incredible...
...from assembling more than, say, 250 missiles in the size range of the huge SS-9, whose 25-megaton warheads can wipe out U.S. ICBMs even in the hardest silos. As part of the total U.S. package, the American delegation last year proposed that ABM systems be either banned outright or limited to the defense of Moscow and Washington...