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Mitterrand and his wife Danielle were driven through the Judean hills to the entrance to Jerusalem for a customary Hebrew ceremony in which they were served bread ("symbol of equality and community," the French President said), salt ("symbol of the spirit that will always prevail") and wine ("symbol of the rites that bring together the faithful"). There was an awkward but quickly forgotten moment when Mayor Teddy Kollek chided Mitterrand for refusing to visit disputed East Jerusalem, the Arab sector that Israel now claims as part of its capital. Afterward, the French President met with Begin for a talk that...
Whether the strategic stakes justified such a massive American involvement must be doubted in retrospect. But once American forces are committed, there is no valid goal except to prevail. The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations trapped themselves between their convictions and their inhibitions. They engaged us in Indochina to defeat a global conspiracy and then failed to press a military solution for fear of sparking a global conflict-a fear probably as exaggerated as the original assessment...
...that when the facts were brought to his attention he insisted on a full investigation and prosecution of those guilty: "The record does not justify the extreme step of impeachment and removal of a President. I trust that as the constitutional process goes forward, this perspective will prevail...
...climax was heralded by the U.S. Supreme Court. On July 24, it ruled 8 to 0 that Executive privilege, though a valid doctrine, could not prevail over the impartial administration of justice. The President must turn over to Judge John Sirica the 64 tapes subpoenaed for the cover-up trial of six former Administration officials. For those of us who knew Nixon's way of talking, the ruling spelled the end; if the tapes did not prove fatal legally, they would politically...
...strikers with the certainty of their own annihilation--is the rationalization for Reagan's program, as it has been for each previous step-up in the arms race. As Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 declared, "We set out to...achieve improved capabilities to entiance deterrence and U.S. capabilities to prevail should deterrence fail. "This is a difficult principle to live by--it requires constant restatement and re-justification by America's leadership. Hence the recent reply of New York's Cardinal Cooke to pro-disarmament Catholic clergymen: "A policy of deterrence may be morally tolerated if a nation is sincerely...