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...Wayne Morse, the fact is that U.S. Presidents for 169 years have dispatched troops abroad without the Senate's advice or consent. The first instance was in 1798, when John Adams sent U.S. warships against French naval forces harassing American merchant ships. Since then, Presidents have taken it upon themselves to intervene in foreign crises more than 150 times without consulting Congress or have done so only after the fact. Jefferson did it at Tripoli in 1801, as did Buchanan against Mexican bandits in 1859, Wilson at Vera Cruz in 1914, Roosevelt in Iceland in 1941, Truman in Korea...
...have been returned to the factory for repair. Their ultra-subminiature integrated circuitry is still at best temperamental. Eventually, Air Force Secretary Harold Brown maintained last week, Minuteman II, only two years old and still evolving, will mature into a reliable vehicle. In the meantime, as the U.S. relies upon an overwhelming ICBM offensive to keep the Russians strategically in check, the failures of Minuteman II remain a dangerous flaw in the nation's armor...
...Once upon a time in modern Elizabethan England, there lived a hereditary lord named Harewood. He was dashing and ruggedly handsome, and he was seventh in a line of Yorkshire earls whose title went back to 1812. His mother was the Princess Royal, and he had two uncles who were former kings; the present Queen was his first cousin, and he himself was 18th in the line of succession to the throne...
...aggressive is now beyond despute: operating with no margin for error, the Israelis have to be aggressive in order to survive. One mistake and the country could be over whelmed in a matter of hours. Perhaps more than any other Army of the world, the Israeli Army depends upon the intelligence and initiative of the individual soldier. Even in the lower ranks, I was surprised to find polyglots who responded intelligently to the questions posed by reporters in a numfber of different languages. One of the reasons that the Israelis were able to rout the Egyptians so quickly was that...
...plotless show in dead voices doesn't leave performers much room. John Lithgow as Lincoln was the only member of the able cast called upon to act. His Lincoln had a frontier body and a lawyer's voice. The excessive makeup limited his face somewhat, but his Abe was a spark of life in a dead play. Kirstein, however, gave him nothing to live for so he went out and had himself shot...