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...opposed. Now, we call the brutal dictators in Argentina our friends, and slap in the face a Nicaraguan government seeking to end U.S. hostility and ease the violent tensions in all of Central America Reagan and his policy-makers are so determined to preserve democratic ideals from the Soviet peril that they have forgotten what those ideals are. If the U.S. wants to give the world a choice between democracy and communism, our blurring of the distinction in Latin America does nothing to make that choice any easier...
...resolutions on Capitol Hill are the small tip of a very large iceberg. In part, the Senators who favor the motions are responding to an unprecedented flood of teach-ins, referendums, legislative proposals, letter-writing campaigns, petitions, and books addressing the peril of nuclear war. The groups involved in the movement include such longtime disarmament organizations as SANE and the Union of Concerned Scientists. But with them are a host of fledgling organizations: Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, the Business Alert to Nuclear War, Artists...
...might attempt to escape their responsibility by dumping on associates. Nixon asked out of the blue whether he should fire Haldeman and Ehrlichman; he was heartbroken, he said, even to have to ask the question. I was dumbfounded; if Nixon held that view, he must be in mortal peril. Not possessing any basis for judgment, I ventured a formulation from which I never deviated: whatever would have to be done ultimately should be done immediately, to end the slow hemorrhaging...
...about the substance but about the arithmetic of the impeachment vote. He was a man awake during his own nightmare. His vaunted self-discipline had not prevented the debacle and may even have caused it. He had suppressed the instincts that would normally have alerted him to his peril; he had been sustained on the fatal course by associates who subordinated policy to procedure and who were at a loss as to how to react when the procedures miscarried...
After hearing several hours of testimony, the panel of three state building inspectors state that they saw "no imminent peril to life," and determined that the prisoners could remain in the jail, located on the 17th through 20th floors of the Middlesex Country Courthouse building in Cambridge, if the country maintains a 24-hour firewatch by hiring guards whose sole duty would be to patrol the halls watching for fires...