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...without committing American troops to the action. What Nixon was saying, aides explained, is that the U.S. might supply a menaced friend with instructors and equipment, but not combat forces. Yet if a nation whose welfare the U.S. valued were genuinely endangered from the outside-say by a large-scale Chinese invasion or a nuclear threat-the U.S. could not be expected to look away...
...conceived of its interest as the prevention of any one power's domination of Asia. Nor is it new even in terms of the 1960s; it is a reversion to the pre-1965 approach of attempting to avoid involvement in civil strife. The Johnson Administration justified large-scale intervention in Viet Nam on the basis of North Viet Nam's actions. No one in the White House then dared speak of the conflict as a civil war. Presumably, Nixon would henceforth be considerably more reluctant to reach a decision that would require sending in U.S. troops. Between what...
...intervention to force a settlement. As the third front opened up, there seemed more reason than ever for the observers to remain. The U.N. and every one else were only too well aware that the last time a peace-keeping force was withdrawn, the Middle East erupted into full-scale...
...common drug reactions involves isoniazid, the most widely used drug against tuberculosis. One of the rarer reactions is found among victims of porphyria (see following story), who suffer acute attacks if they take barbiturates; they may also be sensitive to the sulfas. At the opposite end of the reaction scale, some victims of an unusual form of rickets need more than 1,000 times the normal quantity of vitamin D before they respond...
...before the S.D.S. split into two fac tions over ideological disagreements at its June convention in Chicago, the S.D.S. determined that it would renew and intensify its efforts to infiltrate labor and create a revolutionary worker-student alliance. Similar "work-in" programs had been attempted before on a smaller scale, but this time the campaign was planned in detail. A lengthy Work-in Organizers Manual was circulated among S.D.S. chapters. At the convention, both factions endorsed the alliance concept, although in somewhat differing forms...