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...surcharge that Washington slapped on U.S. imports in August. If so, the momentum toward basic financial reform might well be lost, and foreign countries would be tempted to retaliate against U.S. goods and investments. That would not only create an impossible climate for monetary bargaining, but would threaten the world prosperity that depends largely on relatively free circulation of goods, money and travelers across national borders...
...Harvard Houses threaten to overflow at the rafters, Genevieve Austin, assistant dean of students, has offered floaters the option of moving to Radcliffe...
...FIGHTING: "I'm sure there are issues--particularly where issues arise that threaten the freedom or autonomy or the health of higher education--when it becomes very appropriate, it seems to me, to rally around such university presidents as agree with you and speak out very firmly. Who else is to do it?" Medical School area where several hundred units of community housing will be built...
What surprised Reston most was Chou's deep anxiety over a revival of Japanese militarism that would threaten both Korea and Taiwan. "You are really worried about Japan, aren't you?" Reston asked. Chou was also concerned about the massing of Soviet military might on China's northern border, but added: "We Chinese are not afraid of atom bombs. We are prepared. The great majority of our big and medium cities now have underground tunnels." Chou claimed the Russians "want to lasso us" into a test-ban conference of nuclear powers only, while China hopes...
...early years as Pentagon chief landed him in deep trouble later. He wanted to escape from the Eisenhower era's reliance on massive retaliation, so he pursued what was then considered a liberal course. He prepared for conventional war to combat Communism wherever it appeared to threaten American interests. Yet he helped lead the nation into a war of unforeseen magnitude. His business acumen enabled him to gain control of the sprawling Defense establishment. Yet he was so infatuated with statistics that he was long blinded to the human factors in the Viet Nam conflict. It was a puzzling...