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...unduly sanguine analyses from the field may once again be misleading the nation. The document was prepared by James G. Lowenstcin and Richard M. Moose, both former foreign service officers who are considered moderates of a mildly dovish persuasion. They visited Viet Nam for eleven days in December. They warn that the yardsticks used to measure progress in Viet Nam consist of "far more ambiguous, confusing and contradictory evidence than pronouncements from Washington and Saigon indicate." Adds the report: "A visitor to Viet Nam can easily find evidence to support any case he wishes to make." Other observations...
...From an estimated 5,000,000 people 8,000 years ago, the world population rose to 1 billion by 1850, 2 billion about 1930, and now stands at 3.5 billion. Current projections run to 7 billion by the year 2000. Neo-Malthusians like Stanford Population Biologist Paul Ehrlich grimly warn that the biosphere cannot sustain that many people. As Ehrlich puts it: "There can only be death, war, pestilence and famine to reduce the number...
...Supreme Court's later extension of that standard to all the states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Rulings by Traynor entitled both sides to examine one another's evidence before a criminal trial. Traynor's court also obliged state and local police to warn a suspect that he has a right to silence and counsel. In 1966, the Supreme Court followed suit in Miranda v. Arizona...
...incident for which Margolin. Sheppard, and Hyland were charged occurred in the Yard about 12:30 p.m. on December 11, as Dean May-used a bullhorn to warn black students occupying University Hall that they could "be suspended here...
...Rapallo, the Italian Riviera resort where the Germans and Russians concluded a friendship treaty in 1922. It was the Rapallo pact that opened the way for the German army to train secretly on Russian territory, an operation that continued into the '30s. Rapallo prompted Georges Clemenceau to warn: "The Germans are becoming independent again...