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WOODROW WILSON, stumping for America's entry onto the battlefields of Europe, promised the American people a "war to end all wars." Neville Chamberlain, home from Munich carrying his umbrella and waving a piece of paper, promised the world "peace in our time." And now Richard Milhaus Nixon, picking up the fallen banner of the romantic and the insane, says that by giving the Saigon regime a "chance" to survive, he is assuring not only "peace in our time," but for a long time to come...
...most advanced ground-to-air missiles in the Russian arsenal, is a mobile version of the stationary SA-2s. Code-named "Ganef"*by NATO, the SA-4s have tanklike tracks and can be swiftly shifted. They are being deployed as part of the defense umbrella near the Aswan Dam and at Nag Hamadi, 125 miles north of Aswan on the Nile. In addition, more SA-3s and SA-2s are being shipped to Egypt. Israeli military sources conjecture that with Egyptians manning missile defenses near Suez, the Russians may feel that more batteries are necessary to make...
From the Japanese point of view, particularly, the alliance is important. Not only do the Japanese rely on an American defense umbrella, but, more importantly perhaps, they are dependent on Esso, Caltax, and other American firms, along with the Dutch-British Shell combine for most of their crude...
...made two years ago in Stanley v. Georgia. The court concluded that obscenity, when it is read or viewed at home, is protected by the Constitution. This decision, it is now argued, implies the right to buy or receive obscenity. In short, decision after decision has opened wider the umbrella of the First Amendment...
However, at the same time, a few cases snapped that umbrella shut again-under specific circumstances. One involved sales to minors. In Ginsberg v. New York, the court held that states may make it a crime to sell "to minors under 17 years of age material defined to be obscene to them whether or not it would be obscene to adults." The court's reasoning was that "the well-being of its children is a subject within the state's constitutional power to regulate." And Ginzburg v. United States makes it possible to prosecute publishers for "pandering...