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When Arthur Schlesinger Jr. let loose his thunderbolt against Dean Rusk last Sunday, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at last found its target. The assault began on February 17th when Senator Robert Kennedy criticized the Johnson Administration for a lack of realism in refusing to negotiate directly with the NLF, and the attack continued when John Kenneth Galbraith appeared before the Fulbright Committee and called for a "new generation" of statesmen. Schlesinger's salvo, however, cleverly emphasized party unity by dissociating the President from the Administration's foreign policy and resting the blame squarely on the Secretary...
...Supreme Court raised that profound issue by hurling a constitutional thunderbolt at the most basic U.S. police method of solving crimes: questioning suspects and extracting confessions. For decades, that system has thrived on the fact that most people are not aware of their constitutional right to silence. By holding that suspects may need lawyers to protect that right not merely in court but in the police station, the court's decision in Escobedo v. Illinois posed a cop's nightmare-no more confessions...
Tuohy's consternation was understandable. The papers contained facts and figures about one of the best-kept business secrets in years. The project was even given code names-Operation Thunderbolt and Big Deal-to preserve secrecy. During ten tense months of negotiation, the executives involved scratched out details in longhand so that not even confidential secretaries would know what was going on. Last week the secret was out-and it stunned the railroad industry, Wall Street and even Washington. Tuohy's C. & O. and the Norfolk & Western Railway announced that they planned not only to merge with each...
Still unknown is the location of Pella's great palace-the place where Queen Olympias gave birth to Alexander the Great, after dreaming, says Plutarch, that a "thunderbolt fell upon her body, which kindled a great fire...
With that quotation from Mao Tse-tung's collected poems, Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi hailed Indonesia's withdrawal from the United Nations as not only "a lofty and just revolutionary move," but "the first earth-rending spring thunderbolt of 1965." Clearly the implication was that a second thunderbolt would not be far behind, and last week it came. Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai proposed the creation of a new U.N.-"a revolutionary" one presumably made up of Afro-Asians and free from "the manipulation of U.S. imperialism...