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...white-haired man who has farmed all of his adult life, tried to retain his jolly disposition. His son, who is tall, thin and bright, hovered in the background, staring glassy-eyed at what was happening. He watched a rotary hoe go for $950 (it would cost $3,500 new) and two irrigation motors for $155 (they would cost $1,000 if new); a small cultivator, bought ten years ago for $500, went for $2. Danny's wife Frieda, 33, stayed away from the auction. "She cried," Danny admitted. "She cried...
...involvement in Vietnam as a tragedy of moral insensitivity and missed opportunities. "leaving aside the question of whether America should have been there in the first place," he says, "there is no doubt the conflict could have been handled in a way that might have allowed the U.S. to retain some say in the area Nixon, for example was elected in part as a reaction against the war. If he had really wanted to, he could have resolved the problem a lot sooner. Instead, by prolonging a lost and immoral cause. Nixon assured the total defeat...
...government, for all the apparent power it still retains, seems to be losing in the struggle to retain the loyalty of the people. Many Salvadorans are preparing to follow whichever side ultimately wins out. Nor does there seem to be much enthusiasm about the March 28 election, which Washington hopes will produce a solid majority for President José Napoleón Duarte's moderate Christian Democrats. A veteran politician who returned from exile and joined the junta, Duarte is essential to the political solution that U.S. policymakers are banking on. Even if the guerrillas do not succeed in disrupting the balloting...
...longstanding trials came to an end last week as the Corporation voted to retain Harvard's automatic ban on investing in banks that make loans to South Africa, and President Bok gave final approval to construction of the Fogg Museum extension...
...documents to the House Energy and Commerce Committee has resulted in that committee citing him for contempt of Congress. Watt has stonewalled the committee by declaring that the documents--which concern Canadian energy and investment policies and Administration responses to those policies--are sensitive, he claims that he can retain them under the powers of executive privilege. Barring the negotiation of solution between the Administration and the committee. Watt stands a good chance of being the first Cabinet official in history to be charged with contempt by Congress...