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Every war undergoes an autopsy. Even before the last guns are silenced, military experts start examining each thrust, parry and feint of the armies on the battlefields, hoping to discover a yet unknown tactic or a new strategic wrinkle. Post-mortems on the latest Middle East war have begun. Computers at NATO'S Brussels headquarters, for example, are being fed data from the war that, according to a NATO spokesman, will "test whether the battle effectiveness of some weapons has changed...
...addition to these investigative avenues specifically challenged by the Administration, the Cox task force was looking into a wide variety of other reported criminal acts. They range from "dirty tricks" allegedly committed in behalf of candidates of both parties to various allegations of perjury. Yet the central thrust seems directed at the all but endless amounts of cash raised by Nixon's moneymen during the last three biennial elections-some $60 million for the 1972 race alone...
Maher said yesterday that professors and graduate students organized CAR at Harvard last month for the specific purpose of holding "thorough and reasoned discussions about the new thrust of scientific racist ideology that's been in the air for the last couple of years...
...speak to their own people, their leaders say frankly that if they got us back to the 1967 lines, this would be the first stage, to be followed by the decisive blow to the head and heart. Second, no man in his right senses believes that if the massive thrust of Egyptian and Syrian tanks on October 6 were to have succeeded in its objects, they would have come to a halt on the sand near the '67 boundaries, stepped on the brakes with a loud, victorious screech and said, "Here we stop." What nonsense! The very massiveness...
...C.B.T., whose dollar volume of trading in wheat, soybeans, corn and other commodities has increased 176% since 1972, when it exceeded that of the New York Stock Exchange. His reputation as an unflinching guardian of the rules governing the complicated wheeling and dealing in his business may temper the thrust of some recent Congressional developments. The House Agricultural Committee is beginning to investigate whether excessive speculation in commodities markets has inflated food prices; and Senators Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern have introduced bills calling for the creation of an independent Commodities Exchange Commission to oversee the trading of futures contracts...