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...motivations beyond the oversupply of dollars. One is an unsophisticated-or perhaps starkly honest-view of Watergate, which amounts to a feeling that the scandal shows that the U.S. Government is in trouble, and that its currency is not to be respected. "As Watergate drags on and more revelations threaten the President's integrity, the more the dollar is likely to come under pressure," warns a Frankfurt money dealer. "That in turn will cause a mad scramble to unload vast amounts of dollars." Foreign sensitivity has reached such a pitch that the dollar recently sold off on reports...
...STRIKE, which petered out after four days, was over before it started. Internally, the Union lacked the necessary numbers to threaten Harvard's daily business-as-usual atmosphere. Furthermore, administrators clarified immediately that the Kraus plan as well as the budget would not be revised. Confronted with the immovable object of the Harvard Administration on the outside and confusion and apathy of graduate students within their own ranks, the Union could conduct no more than a symbolic protest...
Thus in the week during which Agnew continued his ardent defense of the President, he also made his boldest declaration of independence. Though Watergate may threaten to sink him-innocent as he may be-with the rest of the Administration, he obviously is making plans to stay afloat...
Ellsberg and Russo plan to sue Government officials for $2,000,000 in damages and expenses (their legal costs already total $900,000). For this process, they threaten to subpoena the President himself. In that, they are not likely to succeed, but the Pentagon papers trial, in another guise, may be in the courts and the headlines for months or years to come...
...that you cannot allow Communism to take over Indochina, but you decided to be friends with China and the Soviet Union, the two most powerful Communist countries in history. Why do you accept friendship with Chinese and Soviet Communism and consider Indochinese Communism as dangerous? Indochina does not threaten the U.S. in any way. You are very far away. Why don't you let us live our lives? If we want to be Communists, why do you refuse us such a right...