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Johnson asserted that, "What we now expect--what we have a right to expect--are prompt, productive, serious, and intensive negotiations in an atmosphere that is conducive to progress." He added that Hanoi has already indicated an intention to talk more seriously. The discussions will resume Nov. 6 with the N.L.F. also participating...
Another issue calling for prompt action concerns the Viet Nam war. Nine suits brought by a total of some 489 reservists seek to have the court declare unconstitutional the 1966 Act of Congress under which they were ordered to Viet Nam. They claim, in part, that Congress cannot give the President such powers in the absence of a formal declaration of war or a national emergency. Justice Douglas ordered a delay in their departure to Asia. But the court majority, which has been reluctant to decide issues involving the legality of the war, is not likely to find much merit...
Promise-'Em-Anything. Nixon's suggestion that crime is an illness susceptible to prompt presidential cure is misleading. So is Humphrey's glib insistence that the Democrats have a monopoly on prosperity. Both are playing promise-'em-anything politics. It is hardly an original approach, nor one that any candidate can be expected to resist entirely. But at a moment that demands great moral authority in the nation's leaders, something more than what either Humphrey or Nixon has so far offered seems required...
When Motorola's executive vice president, C. Lester Hogan, quit last month to become president of rival Fairchild Camera & Instrument, he took seven colleagues along with him. Besides suffering a prompt drop in the price of its stock, Motorola began worrying that the mass exodus would mean a loss of trade secrets. Last week it acted. Filing suit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Motorola Inc. asked damages against Hogan, his associates and Fairchild, also sought to enjoin Fairchild from hiring away any more...
...Henry K. Beecher, it outlined a series of technical steps to ensure that any flat EEG is really an accurate recording, then added that the tests "shall be repeated at least 24 hours later with no change." On its face, this language appeared to rule out the prompt transplantation of an accident victim's heart, but the committee felt that it was necessary to cover a few special cases. A victim of barbiturate poisoning may recover full brain function after 24 hours, or even longer, in deep coma. But in cases of massive head wounds, said Neurosurgeon William Sweet...