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...Defense Secretary is by no means panicked?in fact, he warns that overreaction by the U.S. could lead to an unwarranted and dangerous new leap in the arms race. Nonetheless, Brown argues: "Military superiority on the part of the Soviet Union???real or perceived ?is not a condition that the U.S. and its allies can or need accept." The goal, he feels, is to stabilize the current U.S.Soviet balance through arms negotiations. A new American ICBM, for example, might no longer appear necessary if the Soviets dismantle some of their monster rockets...
...matter of electric toothbrushes and throwaway soft-drink bottles: the system also does better at filling basic human needs like food. Farmers in the capitalist U.S., Canada and Australia grow enough not only to feed their own peoples but also to export huge surpluses. In contrast, the Soviet Union???although 30% of its workers labor on its vast farmlands?has to import food. So does India, which permits private farming but insists out of socialist principle that the produce be sold at unrealistically low prices...
...North Viet Nam, Thieu's departure represented a stunning triumph. After 30 years of fighting French legionnaires, fellow Vietnamese and American G.I.s, after standing up to the technology and will of the world's greatest power, this small agrarian land?albeit one well supplied by China and the Soviet Union???was finally on the verge of victory. What durable, wily old Ho Chi Minh had insisted on, what his heirs in Hanoi had continued to demand?the departure of the Americans and their chosen government in the South?was finally coming to pass...
...lasting peace settlement in the Middle East. Both represented extraordinary accomplishments for Kissinger himself, who had once more demonstrated the effectiveness of his unique brand of personal diplomacy. If the settlements seemed to prove Kissinger's apparent indispensability, they also showed?to the obvious discomfiture of the Soviet Union???that the U.S. had become essential to the shaping of a border peace agreement...
...practices. The Nixon Administration this year began a joint Government-business-labor effort to avoid work stoppages, end restrictive practices and reduce price increases in construction, the nation's most flagrantly inflation-ridden industry. The highly inflated costs of medical care could be brought down if a powerful union???the American Medical Association?would permit less highly trained "paramedical" workers to perform simple functions like applying bandages and giving injections. Federal purchases could be more adroitly timed to take advantage of favorable prices. Government regulatory agencies might abolish minimum rates for freight shipments and other transportation, and permit competition...