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...emerging among blacks. This is not the kind of majority that throws rocks or Molotov cocktails. Nor does it march or sing We Shall Overcome." This new black majority is aroused and vengeful, hardened by events- the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., police raids on the Panthers, the pullback on integration. "All this has created new tensions, new fears in the black community," Hathaway says. "It seems to have drawn people closer together. Tragically, as that happens, black America pulls away from white America. There is a feeling that only black Americans can save black America. White America seems...
With the present separatist mood of blacks on campus, reflected in the political split with such organizations as SDS as well as the pullback from news outlets, neither whites nor blacks hold out hope for an aggressive recruitment campaign among blacks...
Implicit in Nixon's policy so far has been the expectation that North Viet Nam could be persuaded or compelled to make counterconcessions. Reciprocity could take a number of forms: a mutual reduction of military activity, simultaneous pullback of North Vietnamese and American forces, a compromise on one or more of the outstanding political issues. Reasonable as that hope sounds, the reality seems to be far more stark. Unless Ho Chi Minh's death causes a North Vietnamese policy change that is not yet apparent and does not seem likely, Nixon's announced goal of "a peace...
...have deferred this realignment but not canceled it. Laird acknowledges that the American Seventh Army is in West Germany, for instance, more to meet political needs than strictly military ones. Although he places little credence in talk of detente with the Russians,* he does not rule out an eventual pullback from Europe. Technical developments in military transportation, such as the C-5A aircraft and fast supply vessels, give the U.S. increased capability for keeping a larger part of its forces at home while still being able to react quickly to an overseas emergency. When President Nixon talks about maintaining...
...losing Okinawa. Strategically, however, removal of nuclear weapons and bombers should have little effect on overall U.S. capability. The four Polaris submarines and five Navy aircraft carriers now in the area, plus nuclear-armed planes in South Korea and possibly the Philippines, could take up the slack. A logical pullback position for long-range bombers and ground troops would be Guam, a U.S. possession 1,400 miles southeast of Okinawa...