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...foreign economic front, Nixon and Connally played a daring and sometimes crude game of economic brinkmanship that at times seemed to threaten the entire fabric of U.S. relations with its friends and trading partners. While no one could foretell the long-range psychological effects and the resentments that might linger, by year's end Nixon and Connally had plainly cleared the way for the grinding task of renegotiating the Western world's trade and monetary system (see THE ECONOMY...
...Indochina and of the air war in particular, the North Vietnamese government has ordered its people to build bomb shelters in the event of B-52 raids. During a recent visit to Peking, North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong hinted that he expects that the U.S. will again threaten to use tactical nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, the prisoners of war languish, and Saigon is planning forced relocation of large numbers of civilians...
...circumscribed sphere--chiefly academics and military men who know nothing about computers--and protest groups would still be left out. Certain "neighborhood groups" could gain access to government or university computers, but only if they were moderate enough to get financial assistance from the government, and not to threaten the computer-owner. Pool, for example, is conducting a seminar on computerizing land-use data for Cambridge Model Cities. But a more militant group--such as a tenant organization protesting university expansion into their community--would be less palatable to university officials. Thus the military users of the computer tools will...
...their Supreme Court appeal, the students asserted that a college should not be permitted to ban a political group unless there was clear evidence that the group would threaten campus order. According to Silver, the college's president has conducted himself arbitrarily, acting without evidence and thus denying due process...
...stem the deterioration of the city where they base their fortunes. Henry's brother, William Clay Ford, plans to move his Detroit Lions football team to Pontiac, Mich., for example, and Ford Motor Co. is building a $750 million commercial and residential complex in nearby Dearborn. Both projects threaten to attract more businesses and people from downtown Detroit-a trend that Henry Ford II obviously hopes to diminish...