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...Nixon's removal last fall. The Detroit News is a conservative bastion, and its editor Martin Hayden had been on friendly personal terms with Nixon for 25 years; last November the News said Nixon could best serve the nation by resigning. Other papers and editors previously more or less partial to the President?including the Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Times, Omaha World-Herald and William Randolph Hearst Jr.? have also come out for resignation or impeachment...
...Partial Solution...
...over all of Viet Nam. Communist forces will try to force Saigon to implement the Paris accords ("a great victory") so that the North Vietnamese army and Viet Cong guerrillas can nip off territory bit by bit. Says the document: "We will have to attack point by point, grasping partial victories and advancing to ward final victory...
Eventually one man, a tall black, dressed in a three-piece suit with a watch-chain strung across his vest, stopped. He examined my piddling collection, and picked up Joyce. Now, I was kind of partial to that album, and I wasn't kind of partial to that album, and I wasn't even sure I wanted to part with it. This guy wanted to buy it for 50 cents. He started telling me in this hasal tone about Joyce as if he were some expert, so I told him either to pay the money or leave. He paid...
Tracts are important. But they aren't history, and if their obliviousness to cold fact becomes essential to them they may not be too convincing even as tracts. An indictment of capitalism or of slavery that depends on the inhumanity or partial inhumanity of their victims isn't likely to last as long as one that accepts their full humanity, and makes that the grounds for its polemic. Whatever the final verdict on the specific findings of Time on the Cross, it's hard to fault its assumptions--that human beings, masters and slaves, will generally on the average...