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...particular merits. He thinks that serving on the court would be "a much more soul-searching, much more wrenching" experience than his current judgeship. Even that, he admits, has involved "the difficult loneliness of decision making." On the Supreme Court, he clearly would not be so conservative as to resist new interpretations of past decisions, especially those that were decided by a single vote. "Who's to say five men ten years ago were right and five men today are wrong?" he asks...
Even after the Six-Day War of 1967, when many Arab nations blamed the U.S. for their humiliating defeat by Israel, Jordan's King Hussein continued to maintain cordial relations with Washington. His friendship was rewarded with arms, economic aid and occasional intercession to help his beleaguered government resist pressures from Israel, the Soviet Union and Egypt, as well as the Palestinian guerrillas. Last week, however, Hussein's volatile country was boiling again, and the force that inadvertently set it abubble was American...
...people in Lyndon's bedroom." That is the intriguing first sentence of a chapter in Lady Bird Johnson's still unfinished memoirs. How did that get out? L.B.J. himself gleefully quoted from his wife's journal during his recent trip to Washington and then could not resist reciting the remainder of the anecdote: "I was awakened very early by voices. Sleepily I got up and put on my robe to go and see who Lyndon had in there at that hour. I was absolutely astonished to find"-and here the storytelling ex-President paused for effect-"Richard...
...political courage and economic wisdom lies ahead. Last week's budget enhanced Harold Wilson's chances of winning the next election, which the government must hold within the next twelve months. Now he and Jenkins have to get the economy moving again (but not too fast) and resist clamorous demands for still lower sales taxes, higher pensions and other benefits...
...Resistance within Greece is minimal because all Greeks know that the U. S. is backing the regime and that they are therefore impotent to resist the junta. It is up to Greek exiles and knowledgeable Americans to do whatever they can to force the U. S. government to topple the junta for which it is responsible. This afternoon, in commemoration of the third anniversary of the coup, Greeks and Americans will demonstrate in front of the Greek Consulate in Boston. Beyond this, it is important that all Americans know that Vietnam is not an isolated instance of American imperialism...