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...plotter went on to triumphs in other fields. He was John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States, who in 1781, as a 35-year-old emissary to Spain, hatched the kidnaping scheme in a letter to a friend in France. Jay's daring plan remained virtually unknown for nearly two centuries until the letter was placed on exhibit at the John Jay Homestead in Katonah...
...left behind, we will help to catch up." To foreign friends and adversaries, he extended this hope: "Because the people of the world want peace and the leaders are afraid of war, the times are on the side of peace. Let us take as our goal: Where peace is unknown, to make it welcome. Where peace is fragile, to make it strong. Where peace is temporary, to make it permanent." Realistically, he added: "We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy...
...Office Success. It was one of the ironies of the transition period that while the lower levels of government awaited new superiors and unknown policy guidelines, Nixon was nonetheless making himself felt at the top. On Viet Nam, particularly, he acted almost as a coPresident, assisting the Johnson Administration in bringing Saigon into the expanded Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD). He scrupulously observed his pledge to act in concert with Lyndon Johnson on foreign affairs from November through January...
...campuses; they have no central organization, and not even a common name. Some of them, in fact, are out-and-out competitors for power. Last week, after attending a stormy meeting of several rival black student groups at U.C.L.A., two black students were shot and killed on campus by unknown assailants...