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Thieu's repressive measures could not have come at a worse time. The U.S. Congress, in the midst of debating an Administration request for an extra $300 million in military aid for Saigon, was sure to react unfavorably to Thieu's latest attack on the South Vietnamese press; even the anti-Thieu papers are decidedly nonCommunist. Beyond that, a number of longtime supporters of South Viet Nam's President, including Senator Henry Jackson, seem to have given up on Thieu. "The Thieu failure is a failure of a regime to bring together all the factions to fight...
...Daingerfield Perry of the Massachusetts Council on Crime and Correction criticized law-makers for giving in to "political pressures exerted by special interest groups who are organized and react with much clamor and in large numbers...
...ride the 45 miles out to Bridgewater once each week and for an hour and a half you teach a guy to read. Your first time down you wonder how some convict who has been labeled criminally-insane or sexually-dangerous is going to react to an occasional visitor from Harvard. You meet the guy, try to find something to talk about, administer a battery of standardized reading tests. At 9 p.m. you finish. You say good-bye to the guy you've tutored and don't know whether to smile, look sad, or even look at him. Then...
...Detroit's basic trouble runs deeper and has been building longer than either the energy or the economic crisis; it is simply that the auto companies, rightly vaunted for their marketing skills, have failed in recent years to grasp and react swiftly enough to the changes taking place in their market...
Ford reiterated his agreement with Kissinger's widely publicized statement that a new crisis might force the U.S. to take military action. The President said that the U.S. would react only to actual "economic strangulation" and added: "I think the public has to have a reassurance that we are not going to permit America to be strangled to death." In a speech to the Economic Club of New York, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger insisted that it was "within the power" of the U.S. to prevent such strangulation. Schlesinger also reaffirmed U.S. support for Israel in the event of another...