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...development, anti-Communism and friendship with the free world. But his personal style is a bit different: a quiet homebody with no taste for nightclubs, he resigned from all his private businesses when word of Sarit's indiscretions leaked out. His greatest problem, he says, is "how to safeguard and ensure the security of Thailand" against Red insurgency...
...regret over recent unfortunate remarks," editorialized the Washington Post, "Senator Fulbright has redeemed part of the damage to himself and to the country. The words of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are inevitably regarded over much of the world as important statements of policy. The surest safeguard against misunderstanding is for the chairman to be doubly careful that he does not say what he does not mean...
...better solution than the uncertain safeguard of self-regulation would be the bill now before Congress authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to set mandatory minimum safety standards. The customer himself can hardly detect weak door latches or lance-like steering columns whose deadlines might show up only in a crash. But federal inspectors could locate the hidden killers and require manufacturers to eliminate them. Just as significantly, the government could insure continuing progress in automotive safety by demanding that technical innovations such as the collapsible steering column be installed as soon as they are developed. Then foot-dragging on features...
...decisions should be made by the military." Republican Clifford Hansen of Wyoming saw the war as a clear-cut responsibility. "We have to discharge our duty there, and will," he declared. "Our duty is plain-to continue to support the objective of stopping Communist aggression, and to safeguard the freedom and independence of South Viet Nam. We should continue to support the President as long as he holds to those objectives." Nonetheless, added Hansen, people in Wyoming also are "deeply concerned" about the political conduct...
...They 1) devised the Electoral College so that wiser heads than the people's would choose the President, and 2) limited Representatives to two-year terms so that the House would be responsive and responsible to the will of the voter. If neither excess is inconceivable today, neither safeguard is wholly necessary or suitable to contemporary America. Last week, as he promised in his State of the Union address, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to amend the Constitution so as to abolish the Electoral College and give Representatives four-year terms...