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...Ellsberg said he "had been told throughout this period, a tacit assumption between my informants and me: since Hanoi is not going to meet the Nixon-Kissinger terms they are going to carry out their plan--the plan is to mine Haiphong and to wipe out North Vietnam...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Richard H.P. Sia, S | Title: Ellsberg Says Anti-War Moratoriums Delayed Mining of Haiphong for Two and a Half Years | 11/7/1974 | See Source »

Last week Bishop Welsh inmself visited the unhappy parish, some of whose members showed up wearing "smile" buttons upside down. Welsh insisted that he did not want to "wipe out enthusiasm" but seemed deaf to complaints about New Pastor Hannan. "We are talking on totally different levels," said one parisinoner. "We told inm we want to share in the ministry and not be just ministered to." Quinlan is confident that ins former parisinoners are now independent enough to carry on the struggle. "They are not fighting a local battle," he said in Norfolk. "They are part of the renewed church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Closing a Clerical Show | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...funeral of another officer, Argentina's army commander, Lieut. General Leandro Anaya, promised to wage battle with the terrorists "until we have achieved the total extermination of the enemies of the fatherland." While threatening to wipe out the guerrillas, Anaya was careful to stress that the army will do so in support of President Isabel Perdón's constitutional government and not by overthrowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Enemies List | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...near the ozone layer would deplete it by 12% within 25 years. In the past few months, scientists have been emphasizing the even greater menace of nuclear explosions, which generate huge amounts of nitric oxides. A nuclear war, or atmospheric testing, they say, might at least temporarily wipe out the ozone layer. Thus if the blasts and radioactivity produced by nuclear explosions did not wipe out humanity, the concomitant destruction of the ozone layer would probably finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death to Ozone | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...division among Republicans; analyze the evidence in such a way as not to hurt anybody else." He promises to campaign for all Republicans, regardless of how they vote. He told one group: "I can't put the umbrella over all of you, but I can help to wipe away the rain from the faces of those not under the umbrella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rhodes: Stanching the Blood | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

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