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...defenders on the committee were never squelched. Such astute debaters as California's Charles Wiggins, Indiana's David Dennis and Iowa's Wiley Mayne, in fact, presented a far more coherent and reasoned defense than had either the President or his various spokesmen throughout the two-year-old Watergate scandal...
...producers are still hoping that President Nixon will veto the strip-mining bill. Their lobbyists insist that any regulation at all would "discriminate against energy values." National Coal Association President Carl Bagge calls the House bill a disaster, claiming that it virtually "prohibits" mining in many Western areas. Industry spokesmen argue that the committee bill could reduce coal production by as much as one-third. Not so, counter the environmentalists: underground mining of Western coal is feasible and could be profitable...
...focus is on what such spokesmen of the Intellectual Left as Norman Mailer '43, Norman Podhoretz, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Irving Howe and Dwight MacDonald wrote at each particular stage and how four particular "little magazines" reflected the vacillating fortunes of the intelligentsia. Because the study is an historical one that traces a written record of intellectual thought, Vogelgesang can avoid answering the very questions her survey raises and conclude that "the reaction of the U.S. Intellectual Left to the Vietnam War still begs its own response...
...Vietnam was being openly set by the Kennedy administration? Did it have something to do with the closer relationship between the intelligentsia and Kennedy? There is no clear answer for these questions and the answers must necessarily vary among the vast spectrum of individuals and journals that Vogelgesang considers spokesmen for the Intellectual Left. But since Vogelgesang purports to offer a history of intellectual thought and involvement in the Vietnam debacle, her study would have been more complete had she offered more insight into these issues...
...writer does not condone terrorism as a means of pursuing political ends, one must concede that the Palestinians do not have recourse to "legitimate" means for realizing their right to a national homeland. The international community has persistently turned a deaf car to their cause; they have no powerful spokesmen in the United States; they control no economic, informational, or financial resources in Western countries. They have grown desperate and impatient...