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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Norton dismisses the neutron bomb as "sexy for the media [but] a new dimension of warfare that we do not want to go into." The Dutch are attempting to keep the bomb out of the NATO arsenal and Christian Democratic Leader Willem Aantjes declared last week that the false report of Carter's decision was "extremely good news" because "the introduction of new weapons has only resulted in the intensification of the arms race." The French, who twelve years ago withdrew from the command structure of NATO, say they would refuse to allow the bomb on their territory...
...year. Even with the improved short form it is a joyless exercise. So far, tax revolt is a local phenomenon. The IRS has received no more than the usual handful of worn shirts stuffed into tax-return envelopes along with wails of "Right off my back!" But polls report that while Americans are behind the federal system, they show signs of reaching their limits of tax tolerance...
...past 18 months, his air of injured innocence, his flippant responses to questions revealed much about the man. Said committee Counsel Leon Jaworski, who was often irritated by Park's demeanor: "He treats this whole affair as just an ordinary sort of thing." Park practiced, according to a report he wrote on how to win support for Korea in Congress, "invitation diplomacy." He entertained Congressmen in his George Town Club; he arranged junkets for them and their wives to Seoul. "The past records indicate that the effectiveness of invitation diplomacy is nearly 100%," Park told the Korean government...
Premier Giulio Andreotti had just concluded his first complete report on the kidnaping of Christian Democratic Leader Aldo Moro to a tense and packed Chamber of Deputies. Despite Moro's letter of the week before, suggesting authorities bargain with the terrorists of the Red Brigades for his release, the government would reject any attempt at extortion by the kidnapers, said Andreotti, and stood firmly against negotiations. Suddenly Benigno Zaccagnini, secretary of the ruling Christian Democrats, was handed a sealed message. Zaccagnini hurried out of the chamber. A few moments later Ugo La Malfa, leader of the centrist Republicans, told...
Experimental winged-bean plantings are now under way in some 50 countries, partly as a result of a widely distributed report by the National Academy of Sciences that concluded: "The winged bean appears to have great potential for easing the problem of protein malnutrition throughout the humid tropics." But for all their enthusiasm, scientists admit that to begin widespread growth and use of the plant where it has never been grown before may involve obstacles, botanical and otherwise. Indeed, so perverse are human beings that it may prove a difficult thing to change eating habits. As the University of Florida...