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...slip into the red in May and stay there for several months. That may be an overstatement, but Japanese businessmen and politicians now predict that the trade surplus with the U.S. this year will drop to less than $2.5 billion, from $4.2 billion in 1972. Deliberate government policies to restrain exports and dismantle Japan's once awesome array of protectionist restrictions on foreign goods are obviously having an effect. So, too, is the sharp rise in the value of the yen against the dollar since late 1971, which has made Japanese goods more expensive for Americans and U.S. products...
...does, Kissinger's task will be more difficult than ever. Hanoi is certainly aware of his predicament. As a result, it might be tempted to increase military pressure in Indochina. Whether the Soviet Union and China would try to restrain Hanoi depends on how Moscow and Peking assess Nixon's strength and authority in light of Watergate, and the President's ability to deliver the trade and technical benefits they would like, along with the political balance both sides desire...
...condone corporate support of the Portuguese on the ground that European oil companies will pick up where we leave off? There will always be some one willing to make money through direct or indirect participation in criminal activity. We had hoped that Harvard had the moral integrity to restrain itself from certain sources of income. We conceded to Mr. Calkins that all sources of income were open to moral questioning, but we reminded him that there are extremes; that if we cannot distinguish between morally outrageous and morally questionable activity, then we need not have committees to make a show...
...research area, its natural grandeur in close proximity to the New York metropolis and its importance as a part in the Hudson valley conservation system, the University should reaffirm its past statements supporting Scenic Hudson. And Harvard should make a more substantial contribution to the fight to restrain Con Ed than another letter to The New York Times...
...heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism...