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With any sort of luck Opus wil not trudge into obscurity. Its faults are the faults that attend any lack of self-assurance, and if this issue gets the welcome it deserves, there is no reason to think such misdirection will persist. It remains for the established magazines to get jealous...
...American insistence on bombing the North will likely strengthen Ho's resolve to persist for at least several more years. His experiences at Geneva in 1954 and with the French at the end of World War II make him understandably leery of talks with the West. And Johnson's apparent attempt to weaken the North Vietnamese bargaining hand will only reinforce his reluctance to deal with the United States...
Still, the questions persist. There are those who deride the reach for the moon as a mere race with the Russians for national prestige. But the competition has shifted in emphasis in the 51 years since the Apollo program began. At the start, speed was all-important. The Russians were already boasting to wavering nations that their space firsts demonstrated the superiority of the Communist way of life. And there was little doubt of the impact of their argument. Everywhere, everyone capable of understanding the significance of the Russian achievement recognized the impressive technological, industrial and scientific skills that...
...more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors' expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again - but this time with a great difference. The only expansion it seeks is economic; the only conquest it wants is over the understandable fear and hostility that still persist among the Eastern European nations that have suffered so much at Germany's hands. Last week West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger rose in the Bundestag and, speaking to the East as much as to the deputies, said: "We view the reshaping of our relations with the East as the supreme...
...corral him. Sensing that this was the case, Powell issued a statement condemning efforts to dump him from his committee chairmanship as part of a "conspiracy of enormous dimensions." His critics, he said, "are trying to politically castrate one of America's most powerful Negro politicians." If they persist, Powell hinted, he would blow the whistle on other congressional sinners. And, though many if not most Negro leaders privately hold Powell in contempt, they were mounting a massive campaign to protect the black power he personifies...