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...sometimes argued that it is useless for the U.S. to go all out for Taiwan this year, inasmuch as Peking will almost certainly have enough U.N. support to ensure the ouster of the Nationalists next year. But that argument and those assumptions could easily be upset by new developments, perhaps arising out of Nixon's trip. It is also argued that in view of Chiang's insistence (along with Mao's) that Taiwan is not an independent entity but a province of China, there are no "legal grounds" for the U.S. policy. The issue, in this view...
...military procurement bill; it will cost four times more than the plane it is designed to replace, the F4, and there have already been cost overruns during its development, One Senator attributed its acceptance to unemployment: "Some members told me that they would rather have people working on useless things than being out of work. That's a hell of a commentary when you think of all the things that need to be done in the country...
...international agreement to send hijackers home at once. His view is supported by the fact that every pirate he interviewed said he would never have committed his crime if he had known he would be returned home at once. He also advocates eliminating the death penalty to make skyjacking useless as an unconscious method of suicide. And he believes that public stress on the sexual inadequacy of skyjackers would make the crime seem humiliating to men who might otherwise find it attractive...
Ulster's Protestant hard-liners were not appeased. Former Home Affairs Minister William Craig condemned the Prime Minister's moves as a "useless bluff, designed to prevent the restoration of an effective security force." Faulkner came under equally bitter criticism from Ulster's Catholics (who constitute about one-third of Northern Ireland's 1,500,000 population). He announced that 219 of the Catholics who were interned without trial last month would be held indefinitely, while a mere 14 would be released. "Detention," declared the independent Belfast Telegraph, "has driven a massive wedge between...
...their lives," says Skinner, "these boys had been told that they couldn't learn and that they were useless. But under conditions that reinforced them every time they progressed, their morale improved enormously. Moreover, the return rate to the school dropped from 85% to 25% after the method was instituted...