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...continuation of the U.S.-Japan Security Pact, a prime target for Sato's extremist opposition. It becomes subject to renegotiation for the first time next year. The hope in both capitals is that, by defusing Okinawa's potential as political dynamite in Japan, Sato will retain enough public support to avoid reopening negotiations. If neither nation demands new talks, the pact will continue automatically. Without such a compromise, it is doubtful if either the Sato regime or a successor could weather home-front outrage and maintain friendly relations with...
...Administration, of course, is giving no public sign of interest in a compromise. It prefers to convey the impression that it can get the present proposal through the Senate; the House would then be no problem. Enough hints are being passed, however, to indicate that at the right moment in the next month or so, the White House and the Pentagon will agree to the modified ABM schedule...
...where scientists, the press and an outraged public erred was in the assumption that the destruction would continue...
Except in Southeast Asia and parts of Latin America and West Germany, public fear of Communism has noticeably declined. The change in the public climate offers an opportunity to the reformist parties. If they actually do achieve power through elections, the test for the reformists will be to show that Communism can indeed be the liberating, uplifting force that Marx envisioned and not the tyranny that the Soviets and Chinese made it. To judge from all past evidence, it would be dangerous and foolhardy for any Western voter to bet his liberty in the expectation that this will ever happen...
...book is a very special form of communication," McLuhan told the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association in Washington. "It is unique and it will persist." As the nation's leading exponent of electronic communication, however, McLuhan could not resist at least one dig at the reading public, which he says is made up of "print freaks." The United States, he said, "is the only country founded on literacy-on the Gutenberg press. Therefore, it is having the hardest time adapting to the electronic...