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...volunteers realize, after a month, perhaps, that they can't "mobilize community interest" and solve Supai's problems. The Havasupai have begun to understand the decision they must make -- whether to commit themselves to maintaining the tribal ways in their canyon or to abandon Supai and follow the already-flown. But they postpone that decision...
...whose independence rests in large measure on confidence in America's word and in America's protection. To yield to force in Viet Nam would weaken that confidence. We would have to fight in one land, and then we'd have to fight in another-or abandon much of Asia to the domination of Communists. And we do not intend to abandon Asia to conquest...
...trouble is, Male Companion's script might well have been adapted from the same book. Indolence as a theme leads easily to a certain aimlessness of execution, just as nothingness leads to naught. Director De Broca's spontaneity and Cassel's utter abandon with a throng of acquiescent beauties meet every challenge except the vital one of squeezing triumph out of a trifle...
...explosion was set off, it is now believed, when highly flammable liquid hydrogen broke through beryllium windows on the CEA bubble chamber, which was being filled for the first time. The CEA has decided since the explosion to abandon the apparatus and bubble chamber research...
...would work in the long run. The possibility is also being advanced that the U.S. for the time being hold on to the one-third or so of South Viet Nam's territory that the Americans and the Saigon government currently control-the cities and coastal enclaves-and abandon the rest to the Viet Cong until it could be liberated by a U.S.-backed "hidden war," in which U.S. and South Vietnamese troops would wage a quiet guerrilla campaign in reverse, against the Communists. But this, too, would in effect temporarily hand the Viet Cong control of most...