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There is in short a vast difference between humiliation and the reality that Nixon's oratory only beclouds. His own deeds in the realm of constructive negotiating offers in fact belie the narrow negativism of his public words...
...Terminal Man, the near future is practically upon us. The theme is mind control through psychosurgery, today hardly in the realm of science fiction (TIME, April 3). Crichton's surgeons plant 40 minuscule electrodes in the brain of Harry Benson, a psycho-motor epileptic whose fits turn him into a homicidal maniac. The electrodes, powered by a tiny nuclear battery implanted in Harry's shoulder, deliver small electrical impulses which check the epileptic fit at its onset...
...where those in power believe the international expansion of American business to be consonant with the wellbeing of all Americans is very different from claiming that the presidents of those corporate giants have an active role in deciding America's day-to-day foreign policy. We face in the realm of foreign policy--especially in the Southeast Asian nightmare--a primacy of politicians: many businessmen would profit by an end to the war and a return to exploitative normalcy. One can correctly point to offshore oil interests in the South China sea as an underlying economic dynamic, but almost...
...evolves that this morning, the government will try once more to pressure Popkin into responding to inquiries about subjects he feels (and rightly so) are within the realm of academic privilege. Attorneys will present a contempt motion that could result in Popkin's imprisonment for up to ten months without resolving the basic issue of academic privilege on which he bases his silence...
What is particularly grating about the conduct of the government--aside from its obvious political overtones--is that it is aimed at persons clearly outside the realm of the Papers investigation. A separate grand jury in Los Angeles is considering the main case against Ellsberg, who has admitted to leaking the Pentagon study. Yet the Boston grand jury continues to sit. It is becoming increasingly evident that it now sits only to intimidate persons like Popkin, Noam Chomsky, Neil Sheehan, Susan Sheehan, Richard Falk and those legislators--such as Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Ala.)--who see through the government...