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...eight-month tenure at the U.N., Moynihan attempted through public pronouncements to reestablish the justifications for U.S. world hegemony in the face of the "humiliations" of Vietnam. Moynihan presents himself as the defender of an imperiled Western civilization and increasingly threatened individual human rights. Time and again, he has pointed to what he believes is the gradual swallowing up, since World War II, of liberal democratic regimes in a sea of totalitarian states welling up from the third world. He expressed his vision most starkly in a speech last October in San Francisco: "It is sensed in the world that...
...government's first mission, Karami said, would be to "reestablish law, order, tranquillity, and thus self-confidence." The combatants, exhausted after eleven days of fighting that had taken at least 120 more lives, began to disperse their private armies. But at week's end a Palestinian youth was shot down by a street gang, and suddenly the city was again a battleground. South of Beirut, a Christian village and a Moslem village exchanged rocket and mortar fire; a merchant in the Christian community was killed. It is thus clear that Karami's first mission-re-establishing order...
...opportunity to focus on many subjects that have had to be pushed aside over these many months. As TIME's editors pointed out recently in a cover story and essay on the American press, it will be the role of American journalism after Watergate to help reestablish an American consensus and find new ways of expanding and contributing to the national dialogue...
...released soon, will concern redressing the current balance, which has shifted too far in favor of the presidency. Moving ahead of the committee, New York Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, in a speech last week before the liberal Republican Ripon Society, recommended seven measures that would permit Congress to "reestablish itself as a truly coordinate branch of the United States Government." Javits' proposals...
...would say. "My exams look fine," another would reply. "How do your exams look?" So it was probably a good idea for Dean Rosovsky to pop over to Lowell House last week and brighten things up by announcing that he was about to revolutionize education. "It is time to reestablish a consensus which will last another 20 years," Rosovsky proclaimed. Later that night. President Bok added his two cents. "Any really strong, persuasive statement of the purposes and aims of undergraduate education as a whole would have enormous influence" on all of American education, he announced...