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Although the Crimson had all that time to prepare its story, it gave only a partial and somewhat hazy account of Dr. Mark's position. It also omitted information that would be regarded as essential background by journalistic standards of even modest integrity: that Dr. Mark has, in the past, advocated brain surgery as at least a partial solution to the problem of urban violence...
...America's peacetime military draft, which ended in 1973, had not been declared Constitutional during the Vietnam conflict, America's involvement in the undeclared war in Indochina would have been limited. Likewise, without a constitutional partial military draft today, war may seem less inevitable. In the event of a conflict Americans of all backgrounds should be universally drafted; but the nation should not actively prepare for such a possibility...
...Abbas faction of the P.L.F. (it is now splintered into three fragments) is believed today to be financed partly by Iraq, an enemy of Syria's. Abbas travels under an Iraqi diplomatic passport. Italy last week cited diplomatic immunity as partial justification for letting Abbas go rather than extraditing...
Concerning the technologies specifically involved in Star Wars, the booklet concludes that the Soviet effort "represents a far greater investment of plant space, capital and manpower" than the American SDI. It provides only one partial budgetary comparison: Soviet efforts to develop laser beams as warhead-killing weapons "would cost roughly $1 billion per year (to duplicate) in the U.S." That would be about triple the $340 million the U.S. spent on SDI laser development in fiscal 1985. The booklet does present some tantalizing, and disturbing, tidbits of more specific information. Samples...
...less ambitious, more conventional sketches contain lines to cherish. Perhaps the signature for the evening is an observation that in a time of national obsession with health, "I worry that we don't have a metaphysical-fitness program." For that lack, Tomlin's show is at least a partial cure. It is a buoying search for signs of intelligent life in the theater...