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Americans who recall how we got embroiled in Viet Nam must have a chilling sense of déjà vu as they read of our increasing involvement in El Salvador. Are we sliding into another Viet Nam while Congress and the public understandably have their attention focused elsewhere -on our domestic economic problems...
...think the days of the so-called Viet Nam syndrome are over? No, I do not think they will ever be over. There were many valuable lessons which our anguish and experience have crystalized for the American people. I hope we would never lose sight of those lessons...
...other hand, the excesses that followed the Viet Nam experience -which suggested that the U.S. could no longer afford to engage itself in global leadership-have proved their own fallaciousness. The escalating setbacks to our interests abroad, increasing lawlessness and terrorism, and the so-called wars of liberation are putting in jeopardy our ability to influence world events constructively and assure access to raw materials. All these suggest to the American people that we need to modify our approach. So do the unchallenged seizure of American citizens, the murder of American diplomats and officials, kidnapings ... Soviet interventions around the world...
Just how all such nuclear-weapons plans might affect future arms limitation negotiations is uncertain. Weinberger objects sharply to the SALT II provisions. He told the Senate committee: "That treaty would have permitted an enormous further increase in So, viet offensive capacity while presenting the danger of lulling us into a false sense of security." Nevertheless, he added, "we are not abandoning hope for arms control, but we are abandoning unwarranted illusions...
...observations came from the 120-in. reflector at the University of California's Lick Observatory, enhanced by computer technology. To study such extremely faint objects, astronomers had to focus their light onto a photo-imaging tube akin to the night-vision devices used by the military in Viet Nam. This electronic gadgetry strengthens the signals and then stores them as electronic data in a computer, while it subtracts any disturbing background glare. Eventually the astronomers accumulated enough light to produce spectra, or light signatures, for all four galaxies, but that took considerable doing. The image of just...