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...chop logic that maintains simultaneously: 1) Russia can no longer be seriously regarded as a threat to the West, and 2) by its firm stand in Southeast Asia, the U.S. is inviting Russian retaliation. Both premises are debatable at best; together, they are not an argument but a plea for passivity. The danger of such wishful thinking, as the State Department's Walt Rostow has warned, is that "out of a false sense that the cold war is coming to an end, out of boredom or domestic preoccupations, or a desire to get on with purely national objectives...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Emlyn Williams and Ossie Davis in a drama about a murderer who bases a plea of self-defense on extrasensory perception. Repeat...
Avoiding Damages. By pleading no contest, the companies avoided the embarrassing and costly ordeal of a public trial, and they did not admit any guilt. More important, the plea greatly diminished the chance that injured customers could successfully sue for treble damages. Reason: not only could the steel companies deny the charges in such suits, but the customers would have to prove both the conspiracy and their own injuries without access to the Government's evidence. Clearly, for steelmen who would like to forget about the whole affair, this was the best...
...Polite Plea. It was not a day for unity. The very ceremony at which they spoke played its own part in creating new tensions. Perhaps miffed at the absence of the Swiss President, De Gaulle had refused to allow a low-level delegation from Switzerland-which donated 2% of the tunnel's cost-to take part in its inauguration. He even denied the Swiss access to the tunnel, the only link between the ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the French side and the speeches on the Italian. Small wonder that one passionate European Federalist in the audience found the session...
Thus Mark Van Doren opened the guests' presentation of readings from their own prose and poetry with a plea for "honoring the scruples of a fine poet who, in his own terms, was 'conscience-bound' to stay away." Author John Hersey prefaced his reading from Hiroshima with these words: "I read these passages on behalf of the great number of citizens who have become alarmed in recent weeks by the sight of fire begetting fire. Let these words be a reminder. The step from one degree of violence to the next is imperceptibly taken, and cannot...