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...Irish Republican Army turned to a new tactic in Northern Ireland last week: indiscriminate terror directed against the civilian population. The result was appalling panic in the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland's largest city. Forty persons were injured in a series of explosions that severely damaged the headquarters of the ruling Unionist party as well as a random selection of other targets: a clothing factory, an office building, a bacon plant. Along the border, a customs post was destroyed and a national guardsman was killed by gunfire from a speeding car. A 19-month-old girl was killed...
...will we provide adequate health care when our population reaches 300 million?" Some birth-control enthusiasts want to answer with a barrage of coercive measures ranging from special taxes on any family with more than two children to sterility drugs in the public water supply. Indeed, about the only tactic they have not yet proposed is euthanasia. Mr. Nixon answered his questions with a more modest approach: a $382 million program to encourage birth control...
...freshman, she has already had unusual impact in the House, upstaging even Brooklyn's combative Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman in Congress. During one of her 18-hour days, Bella unearthed from the House rules an old tactic called a resolution of inquiry, which demands action by the House within the startlingly short span of seven days. Invoking that device, she pushed through the proposal that the President be directed to furnish the Pentagon papers to Congress. She succeeded in getting a sex-discrimination amendment added to the Public Works Acceleration Act. It was vetoed by President Nixon...
PREDICTIONS OF FAILURE. During late 1963 and early 1964, a year before President Johnson ordered bombing attacks on North Viet Nam, two secret study groups had decided that the tactic would not succeed. The groups worked independently of each other, but their conclusions were the same. An interagency task force headed by Assistant to the Under Secretary of State William H. Sullivan predicted that North Viet Nam would be able to withstand an aerial attack, and rather than breaking national morale, the bombing would stiffen North Vietnamese resistance...
...little doubt" that the closings were an official "pronouncement that Negroes are somehow unfit to swim with whites." Black felt it necessary to warn from the bench that the majority view should not be taken as encouragement for the closing of public schools to evade integration-a tactic long since outlawed. But distinguishing between pools and schools sidesteps the point that perhaps no distinction should be made...