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THURSDAY. As Betty Ford was gently shaking her husband awake at 6:30 a.m., an hour later than usual, the Mayaguez's crew was stoking the freighter's boilers.
American military aid has been largely responsible for stoking the fires of violence and death in Indochina: over $112 billion and 55,000 Americans were lost in Vietnam alone. And now, while President Ford continues to invoke the domino theory as justification for more money for more bloodshed in Vietnam...
But it isn't quite so simple. Actions to raise government and private spending would create more upward pressure on prices. The government is no more pleased at the idea of stoking the fires of inflation than it is at the prospect of worsening recession.
George Wallace, running in the Florida Democratic primary, has made busing the keystone of his campaign, lashing the Administration and his opponents alike for approving court-ordered busing. With his candidacy in jeopardy, Senator Henry Jackson has offered an antibusing amendment that would guarantee "freedom of choice to attend neighborhood...
Stoking Fears. American strategists fear that the new Soviet capability could complicate the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) with the Russians, due to resume in Helsinki next month. Moreover the intensive Russian experimentation comes at a time when Washington is becoming increasingly nervous about Moscow's intentions in a...