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...syndicated column by Jack Anderson published Monday explained what "personally responsible" means: Nixon, he revealed, is now seriously considering sending commandos into North Vietnam to murder North Vietnamese leaders whom he has pronounced guilty of mistreating American POWs. And if the Son Tay raid was a rotten rescue mission, it was certainly a fine dress rehearsal for an attack by helicopter-borne suicide-squads intent on assassinating Pham Van Dong or Vo Nguyen Giap...
...rotten summer for Dylan watchers. In the background were those live recordings, in which he sang "Like A Rolling Stone" as if he didn't even know what the words meant, just coasting through them like Perry Como. And there were rumors that he would make a Hollywood movie produce a Broadway musical. It was like hearing a friend. newly emerged from a siege of electro-therapy, his brain burned into a gray powder, say over and over, "Nice weather we're having...
...PERFUNCTORY bid for the Catholic vote, Richard Nixon stopped off at the Vatican on his European tour and edified the Pope with the moralistic bombast appropriate to a man who models himself after Woodrow Wilson. Two days later the Lrish would throw rotten eggs at him. Paul VI, though, simply communicated to the President a brief but vigorous plea for peace. Nixon claimed to share the Pope's concern for peace and then generously requited from his Inaugural Address those hackneyed lines on "the need for strength in an era of negotiation...
...however, to condemn bombers. Those of us who object to bombing as a strategy for social change must begin to construct some real response to the injustice of America: a strategy that can include everyone in the United States who is being ripped off by poisoned air, poisoned food, rotten housing, larcenous doctors, racism and militarism...
...Acheson rotten apples were converted to falling dominoes by Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Dean Rusk embraced the theory throughout Kennedy and Johnson presidencies and Nixon dragged them forcefully to the fore when antiwar dissent rose. The rotten apple and domino visions of the world struggle could be defended in their time, but realities have changed, notably America's relative power vis-ŕ-vis the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist André Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most...