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...this time, it is the liberal establishment--both commentators and policy makers--which confuses the tough and tendermined points of view. Without using nuclear weapons, the United States is too small a nation, in population resources, to follow this policy of turning countries into strategic hamlets when Communism threatens. U.S. planners recognize this: they count on the threat of nuclear war to keep Russians and Chinese from responding to American bombing in North Vietnam. Although the U.S. can threaten a holocaust if China re-escalates, the fact is that nuclear weapons cannot win the kind of war the government engages...
...yard freestyle. Bruce Fowler, a winner against the Bulldogs last year, and Bob Corris are perhaps not as fast as Yale breaststroker Dale Keifer, but they could grab second and third for the varsity. Hayes, one of Harvard's strongest swimmers since Ironman John Pringle, could threaten Yale's Joe Hill...
...only would a war policy insure for Vietnamese and Americans a far bloodier struggle than the one in which they are now engaged, but a new drawn-out Korea would threaten the whole with nuclear holocaust. At home Americans would have to shelve indefinitely the issues of poverty, unemployment, and civil rights, in order to divert their creative energies to the destructiveness...
...hostility to an emerging Communist nation. If China attacks Vietnam after the U.S. pulls out, that may be the time for another Korea. But a war policy now would do little to enhance U.S. power in Asia, would surely weaken U.S. prestige everywhere else in the world, and would threaten an escalation that might kill...
...special message to Congress on natural beauty, President Johnson highlighted the triumphs of progress that threaten to make the countryside invisible, the water undrinkable, the air unbreathable and the city unlivable. To put a stop to all this, Johnson indicated that memos will soon be flying, committees conferring and money sluicing, largely through the Land and Water Conservation Fund established by Congress last September, which will have approximately $1.450 billion at its disposal during the next decade...