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...will have to make do with NATO as best as it can, but it certainly can strengthen what is left of it. It ought to untangle the twisted chains of command, solidify the bifurcated military and political committees and modernize the World War II-style deployment of its forces. Some experts believe that, in the long run, NATO may come to resemble the structure of the Holy Roman Empire, rich in form and legal ties but sparse in substance. Henry Kissinger of Harvard's Center for International Affairs reflects the views of many Americans when he says...
Still, Ceausescu has something to gain merely by causing tremors in the Iron Curtain. At the Soviet 23rd Party Congress last March, Brezhnev called for a "strengthening" of the Communist alliance, and later hinted at a Warsaw Pact meeting to be held, of all places, in Bucharest. Such a meeting would dangerously strengthen Russian restraint on Rumania's independence of action. By circulating the anti-alliance note, Ceausescu might well have torpedoed the meeting, and at the same time won greater maneuvering room for his own nation...
...Times's editorial enterprise was rewarded last week with a Pulitzer Prize* for local coverage. Like many another metropolitan daily facing expanding competition from TV, radio and magazines, the Times is working overtime to strengthen the local reporting, which is a newspaper's major asset. It is to the Times's credit that, Pulitzer or no, it is still not satisfied with its home-town coverage. The paper's own editorial brass feels that it has scored most of its successes so far on national and international coverage...
...strengthen Harvard's first doubles, Barnaby has teamed Gonzalez with Brian Davis, a powerful off-hand player with sharp volleys and lightning reflexes. Barnaby has tried this combination twice in team matches, but they may not have played together long enough to react in co-ordination like the Yale or Dartmouth pairs. Adelsberg and Kileff -- the slugger and the runner -- form Harvard's incongruous second doubles team...
...essence of intervention, Bissell said, is to find allies within other countries and strengthen them. He warned against choosing the "doomed" and "hopelessly incompetent" as allies...