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...hard-line faction within the Nixon Administration is arguing for retaliation to show that the U.S. is not "soft" on takeovers. Under the 1962 Hickenlooper Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, the President is required to suspend U.S. foreign aid to countries that expropriate American holdings without compensation. Nixon once threatened to use the amendment against Peru after it seized a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, but he has never carried out his threat. Some State Department careerists argue that the U.S. should definitely not get tough now because retaliation against a developing nation would drive its leadership...
...came time to make this decision," Cowles sadly told a press conference at the New York Hilton Hotel, "I thought back over Look's 35 years of constructive, responsible and award-winning journalism and my heart said 'Keep it going.' But my head said 'Suspend it,' and there was really no other way." Ironically, he added, reader response to subscription offers has recently been the best in Look's history. "Now, at the end," Cowles lamented, "we have the most interested and best educated audience we have ever had. We tried to be serious...
...Twelve gurus of the right, editors and officials of conservative groups headed by National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr., expressed their "personal admiration" and "affection" for Nixon, then said: "In consideration of this record, we, who have heretofore generally supported the Nixon Administration, have resolved to suspend our support of the Administration...
Tripling the Take. The mercurial Mintoff was just getting started. He sacked the British police chief. He pronounced invalid the ten-year agreement allowing Britain to keep military forces on the island. He asked Washington to suspend further Sixth Fleet visits "pending revision of general agreements." For good measure, Mintoff also declared NATO's Mediterranean commander, Italian Admiral Gino Birindelli, persona non grata. Birindelli, an outspoken right-winger who kept his NATO headquarters on Malta, had accused Mintoff of planning to let the Russians use the island as a naval base...
...that wasn't it. The point is, the government decided that it had the right and the mandate to terrorize a significant group of citizens; to completely suspend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and any civil liberties we are used to having, in order to gas, drive, and club dissidents from its doorsteps. It wasn't that the government jailed us; it was that it declared war on us. The death machine brought out the full force of its fire-power to protect Washington, and it was awesome. The American government probably imposes order better than it does anything...