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...Pros and Cons. Meanwhile it is Washington's turn to break the silence. At the end of his trip to Europe, President Nixon was to meet in Ireland for an exhaustive review of the U.S. position with his chief Paris negotiator, David Bruce; Deputy Negotiator Philip Habib; and Henry Kissinger, Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs. Nixon will get as many as a dozen proposals, each with its pros and cons, then go off alone with the intention of making some hard decisions...
...place of a professional and then write about it, he reasoned, every fan in the country would identify with him and want to read his story. A good amateur pitcher, Plimpton persuaded the editors of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and major league baseball officials to let him pitch to the pros before a post-season all-star exhibition game. What started as a lark quickly turned into nightmare. Under Plimpton's special rules, a batter did not have to swing unless he liked the pitch-and few of them liked his pitches. Ernie Banks, the reigning home run king...
...shadow of the Disneyland Matterhorn, Mary slipped out her tape recorder and notebooks and listened while the Anaheim Pros and Antis talked. And talked! In 1969, the pioneering Family Life and Sex Education Program, which Anaheim had introduced into its schools, was the major local topic...
...evil of all evils -a Communist plot to brainwash pure-minded America. Atheism, rock 'n' roll, even the U.K. were minor perils beside sex education. It was "programmed perversion," condoning homosexuality, endorsing masturbation-a sneaky death blow at the heart of America: the Family. The Pros, on the other hand, saw the experiment as education at the point of salvation. "Stamp Out Neurosis" was the invisible banner every Pro waved. Sex education promised to free America from its puritan hang-ups-and about time...
Blandly ignoring cries of "Shame!" and "Farce!" during an obviously phony election, the pros voted in a young Palestinian student named Fawaz Najia as the peace commission chairman. At the final session, which ended in uproar at 2:30 a.m., the wily Najia rammed through a resolution condemning the U.S. for a host of "rapacious" policies. What of some 70 other proposals that included a rebuke of the Soviets for "aggression" in the Middle East? There was, said Najia, "no time...