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Although Nixon describes this as part of "a new policy on the part of the U.S. in assuming the initiative," the main U.S. thrust continues to be toward agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a solution to the Arab-Israeli impasse. Nixon's men also intend to make bilateral probes of French and British attitudes through their delegations at the U.N. When the four-power talks eventually take place, the U.S. wants to make sure that it does not find itself on the short end of a three-to-one international line-up over the Middle...
...weeks is hardly sufficient time to analyze an Administration's style, let alone its basic thrust toward the future. Nonetheless, Richard Nixon is making some first impressions that promise to be durable. The President seems keenly aware of the importance of the beginning. So far, he has avoided the blast of major action, but his carefully aimed shafts denote a distinct mood and temper. Paramount among these is what a sociologist might call a sense of inner direction...
Israel had another reason to heed appeals for restraint, particularly from the U.S. Any retaliation would surely fan fresh talk of war in the Middle East, and undermine the latest Israeli diplomatic thrust. It is aimed at countering a Russian proposal for a big-power settlement to be imposed on the hostile nations of the region. Such a settlement would protect the Arabs and presumably consolidate Russia's position in the Middle East. But the Russian initiative also stems from fear that any all-out conflict might involve the two superpowers in a nuclear showdown...
...psychological pressures given Bucher and his crew were so horrifying as to stun the world anew last week. To some extent, the techniques consist of old-fashioned torture protracted and refined, in a mixture of mental and physical ordeals. The P.O.W. may be kept in utter isolation or thrust into a cell group without a shred of privacy. He may be forced to sit or stand in the same position for hours on end until his bodily functions go awry. His interrogators may keep him constantly unnerved, preventing him from sleeping, exploiting his normal feelings of guilt by focusing...
...last speech as President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he again struck out against Johnson's policies on the war. "I was doing something that was reprehensible in a conventional sense," he recalls, "but I felt the issue had to be thrust forward." For his efforts, he was physically threatened by a painter sitting next to him on the stage...