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Another plan comes from Arthur M. Cox, a congressional candidate in New Hampshire, who at various times has pondered the problems of Viet Nam for the State Department, the CIA and the Brookings Institution. His scheme calls for a cease-fire only after thorough negotiations have settled all the ground rules of deescalation. The sequence would then be a ceasefire, the withdrawal of all external forces, both allied and North Vietnamese, and the substantial demobilization of Viet Cong and South Vietnamese army forces. The process, he believes, would require at least two years. Overseeing it would be an international peace...
...mere fact that many Justices did and do engage in various pursuits outside the court does not mean that such activities fail to raise problems. In fact, Fortas' admission of presidential troubleshooting has only served to heighten discussion in legal circles of the propriety involved in out-of-court activities...
Policing the policy is the job of N.Y.S.E. Vice President Phillip West. He and his counterparts at the American Stock Exchange have power to recommend a halt in trading when unusual activity may indicate an insider's secret or an unexplained development. The Big Board halted trading in various stocks 720 times last year, sometimes merely to give time for important news...
...Africa. Newspaper advertisements carrying hungry African babies whose survival depends largely on the outcome of a march-of-dimes-type crusade are a humiliating reminder of Fanon's sad conclusion that black people of our generation are indeed the wretched of the earth. Our fellow Africans who, for various reasons now identify with secessionist Biafra, feel this deep sense of shame also...
...despite the talk, it is a mistake to believe there is really much delegate interaction at this convention. Delegates talk primarily to other delegates they knew before they came, almost exclusively to delegates from their own state. The delegations are so spread apart in the various hotels along Miami Beach's Collins Ave, that it is almost impossible to see people from other delegations unless you are a candidate for President in which case you make a special effort...