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...mission of United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring, which is supposed to get under way again this month. But Israel's response to the Soviet withdrawal has been to stand pat, publicly calling for direct negotiations in full knowledge that Egypt would refuse; Cairo considers direct talks tantamount to Israel's dictating the terms of peace...
Leading the Nixon administration attack against the Democratic presidential nomination front-runner on the eve of the Miami Beach convention, Laird again characterized McGovern's program as "tantamount to a white flag of surrender...
...majority of the editorial board and Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson cannot have their cake and eat it too. They must face the fact that formulating the nature of intellectual freedom in the manner they do is tantamount to denying intellectual freedom. Either the intellect is free from extrinsic limitations or it is not. To state, as Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson do, that "political circumstances are not to be ignored...it is political considerations that must decide the terms of any debate," is simply to deprive the intellect of an intrinsic freedom...
Help is forthcoming from the outside. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week refused to report the confirmation of Howard P. Mace, 55, as U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, which is tantamount to defeat of his nomination. As director of personnel for four years, Mace was the source of much of the department's interior turbulence. He was known behind his back as the "executioner," the man primarily responsible for the selecting-out process. Officers also noted that under his aegis men with high diplomatic potential were often bypassed for plush jobs in favor of men little experienced...
...only point on which Mao and Chiang agree. They argue of course over which government is the legitimate representative. But any proposal which calls for a divided China is unacceptable. In effect, advocacy of any sort of two China, one China and one Taiwan, or dual representation policies is tantamount to opposition of the seating of the People's Republic. In addition, such proposals require the extraordinary procedures of annexing Taiwan from China and declaring the island to be a separate nation...