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...MIDDLE EAST NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Israel does not possess tactical nuclear weapons, and Israel has always objected to the introduction of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. There is enough tension with conventional weapons. Adding nuclear weapons is simply too dangerous, and any responsible party must be against that...
...multiply eightfold the taxes and royalties on bauxite mined out of the Jamaican earth. The payments presage substantial price increases in the U.S. on aluminum products ranging from lawn chairs to beer cans-and foreshadow difficulties industrialists may encounter from now on in dealing with poor countries that possess vital raw materials...
...newsmen would prefer to identify their sources in print rather than mask them. It is often all too easy for sources to talk without having to take full responsibility for what they say. In many cases, however, attribution is impossible because people who possess highly sensitive information cannot be expected to sacrifice their careers in order to divulge it. A Capitol Hill staffer or an FBI official, for instance, may have evidence of serious abuses that should be aired. If he cannot get a hearing within...
...this plan tends to result, as some of its supporters hope it will, in the admission of women to Harvard, then it should be vigorously opposed. At the threshold of the recitation-room the line must be drawn. By all means let the girls have the advantages which we possess. We should be glad to have the scanty salaries of our instructors increased; we should be glad to see the bright faces of the young ladies in Cambridge, and we would not even be so selfish as to envy them a Harvard degree; but we have too much respect...
...PASSION seems even more paradoxical because it lies under the cool formal surface. The formal tricks strain toward a big-league style that Roth simply does not possess--Roth seems to have been reading Nabokov. He includes a whole series of "found" documents. There are Tarnopol's writings, and within them letters, an article written by Spielvogel, a paper by one of Tarnopol's students, and a couple of strange memos commenting on Tarnopol's writing produced by none other than Lane Coutell and his wife Frances: Salinger's Franny has married her college boyfriend and both, thanks to Roth...