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Doomsday Prospect. Under close analysis, the Kissinger statement did not seem to warrant such a reaction. In a sense, it merely expressed the obvious. It is hard to see how Kissinger could have ruled out military action absolutely under any circumstances. A sovereign power must retain the option of using force if and when its survival, or that of its essential allies, is at stake. "Any individual, or country, carries in the back of his mind the idea that if his life or livelihood is threatened, he will use all the means at his disposal to protect himself," observed Harvard...
...many grounds--Constitutional, historical and political--for opposing Kissinger's attack on Congress that it is difficult to choose among them. The Constitution--which gives it the power to vote foreign-affairs appropriations and to declare the wars Kissinger's foreign policy is designed to provoke--is Congress's warrant for "interfering" with foreign policy. And Congress is closer to being right than the president or the secretary of state on the foreign-policy that gave rise to Kissinger's denunciation...
...Britain, where Parliament recently passed emergency legislation out lawing the I.R.A. throughout the country and permitting authorities to arrest I.R.A. suspects without warrant, a newly formed police squad made its first significant headway against I.R.A. bomb units. Police arrested eleven suspects who were accused of involvement in the October bombing of a Guildford pub in which five died; six of those arrested were charged with murder. Of the five I.R.A. terrorist cells that the British believe are operating in England-two in London and three in the Midlands cities of Birmingham, Luton and Coventry -authorities think that one and perhaps...
...presidents' council also considered voting to allow freshmen to play varsity basketball and hockey, but the vote was "suffiently split," according to chairman John Kemeny of Dartmouth, to warrant reconsideration at another meeting in February...
...should be burned in the memory of us all-the monstrosities of its villains, the terrible miscarriages of justice and finally, the heroism of Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson...