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...international field one can cold-bloodedly limit warfare and come to understandings about the kinds of violence that will be resisted or punished and the activities that will be considered non-aggressive, or domestic, or within the other side's sphere of influence. Maybe the same approach is necessary in dealing with crime itself. And if we cannot acknowledge it at the legislative level, it may have to be accomplished in an unauthorized or unacknowledged way by the people whose business requires it of them...
...Meselson, of course, the prime issue is to keep closed "this Pandora's box." But his efforts will also be a significant test of whether a large number of scientists can, in their own sphere, influence the Chief Executive, in much the same way they influenced Congress two decades...
...speech, Goldberg chided the statesmen-by implication, Charles de Gaulle as well as Thant -who persistently appeal "to one side to stop, while encouraging the other." Denying that the U.S. is engaged in a "holy war against Communism," Goldberg disclaimed any American interest in establishing a "sphere of influence" in Asia. "We want a political solution, not a military solution," he declared. "We seek to assure for the people of South Viet Nam the same right of self-determination-to decide their own political destiny, free of force -that the United Nations Charter affirms...
...principle he would uphold. "I will continue along the road of apartheid," he promised, and proceeded to deliver his own definition of it. "It is not," he said, "a denial of human dignity to anyone. On the contrary, it gives an opportunity to every individual, within his own sphere, not only to be a man or woman in every sense of the word, but also to create the opportunity to develop and advance without restriction or frustration-as circumstances justify in accordance with the demands of the development achieved...
American Aid. The Ivory Coast is solidly tied into France's African sphere of influence. Still, Houphouet-Boigny decided early this year on a greater display of self-sufficiency. Replacing Sailer as the Ivory Coast's top moneymen are two Africans. Mohamed Diawara, 35, a University of Paris mathematics graduate, is in charge of le Plan. And presiding as Minister of Finance and Economics is Konan Bédié, 32, a Baoule tribesman with an economics degree from France's University of Poitiers...