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There has been little problem finding American sponsors for the Indochinese. After seeing a documentary on the plight of the boat people, Governor Robert Ray of Iowa wrote President Carter and said his state wished to add 1,500 more refugees this year to its current Indochinese population of 3,500. Ray offered those arriving last week "a new beginning, an opportunity to build new lives for yourselves and your children," and called on lowans to "remember that our own ancestors were also boat people...
...achieve its diplomatic goals simply by asserting its military or economic power. Rather, it must seek ways to adapt to and guide revolutionary changes that are probably unstoppable. Said Vance: "There can be no going back to a time when we thought there could be American solutions to every problem." The U.S., he counseled, "must accept the fact that other societies will manage change and build new institutions in patterns that may be different from our own [an obvious allusion to Iran] . . . Our national interest is not in [all countries] becoming like us. It is that they be free...
...sent him reeling onto the Senate floor-Talmadge has little left but his political career, and he intends to fight for it. He defiantly reaffirmed his candidacy in February, upon emerging from the Long Beach Naval Medical Center after five weeks of treatment that he says cured his drinking problem. Two weeks ago, he spurned an offer by Senator Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the Ethics Committee, to drop the hearings if he would accept Senate censure...
...Rhodesia. You have got to go from where you are now: there is an internal settlement. There was an election, one person-one vote for four different parties. Where else would you get that in Africa? The problem isn't between whether you should have a white or black government, it's who shall be the black government. The whole illegality of Rhodesia was because they had not observed the six principles.* If those six principles are observed, there's no reason to retain the illegality, no reason to have the sanctions at all. So the Anglo...
...public has needed no expertise to read about DDT, thalidomide and cyclamates, nor to learn that the DES that seemed a nifty preventive of miscarriage in the 1950s was being linked to cancer a generation later. The citizen's problem, at bottom, is how to assess the things that so often come forth in the beguiling guise of blessings. What to believe? Whom to trust? This is a recipe for public frustration...