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Financial aid may strengthen a religious school, but this support would not be tantamount to establishing a national religion, he said. Besides, "there are already so many ways in which we aid religious institutions today," such as churches' exemption from federal taxation and the availability of G.I. Bill scholarships to students at sectarian schools...
...reader fail to blanche when he complains: 'A ban extended over a period of years would almost certainly lead to the attrition of our weapons laboratories, whose ablest scientists would be increasingly tempted to concentrate on fields where scientific progress was more promising.' This is tantamount to rejecting disarmament because of projected unemployment in the military. And it is precisely if there are good and valid reasons to reject bans, or disarmament--precisely if well-intentioned people are to be persuaded, that these lines of reasoning are dangerous...
...sided for the Russians to accept? If the overthrow of East Germany is impossible without a war, how can an arms control plan based on a united and pro-Western make any sense at all? Kissinger does not rule out a neutralized Germany, but his definition of acceptability is tantamount to the same un- Soviet Society," so often invoked as the inevitable outcome of history and the prelude to peace. Such a transformation, he argues, is not only unlikely, it is the most dangerous presupposition that the Western Alliance could make...
...most popular tutors in Adams House history, he doesn't regard next year's assignment as a stepping stone to a permanent position as a House Master. "There have been about five acting Masters in Adams House during the last 20 years alone, so the job is not necessarily tantamount to becoming a master," Stewart pointed...
...frustrated man in Manhattan last week was the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold. His Congo command, having backed all the main antagonists into corners, now seemed to be in full charge in Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations, for they...