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...American onslaught and free of a barrage of bombs unprecedented in the history of the world. The thousands of refugees spawned by 30 years of war--seeking escape from bombings, marches and retreats, free-fire zones and protective reaction strikes; or ripped untimely from their homes by "strategic hamlet" programs and "forced-draft urbanizations"--have begun to return. And the people of Vietnam will benefit from a government with wide popular support, committed to equality and to industrial and agricultural development...
...Presidents, only Truman and Dwight Eisenhower (whom H.S.T. resented) were able to retire from office with their reputations largely intact. Yet Truman never wasted a second polishing his image. He actively campaigned for Adlai Stevenson as the man to succeed him as Democratic standard bearer-but grumbled that the Hamlet-like Illinois Governor "was too busy making up his mind whether he had to go to the bathroom or not." Enemies fared far worse, rhetorically. According to Merle Miller, Truman called Nixon "a shifty-eyed goddam liar," and described General Douglas MacArthur as "a man there wasn't anything...
...flew to Paris to learn from Choreographer Petit. In the summer he will add Shadowplay, which Antony Tudor is reworking especially for him. Such innovators as Twyla Tharp and Alvin Ailey are also working on new ballets for him. John Neumeier, director of the Hamburg Opera Ballet, will stage Hamlet for him-probably next winter...
...theater's only meaningful triumphs are triumphs of illusion and not replication. After the curtain rises and the houselights dim, Harry Truman is no more real in theatrical terms than Hamlet or Willy Loman or Blanche DuBois...
...decades. Vietnam today is free of that onslaught and rid of the fear of that barrage. The thousands of refugees spawned by 30 years of war--seeking escape from bombings, marches and retreats, free-fire zones and protective-reaction strikes; or ripped untimely from their homes by "strategic-hamlet" programs and "forced-draft urbanization's"--will start to go back to their homes now. The Montagnard tribesmen, alternately cajoled and maltreated by a Saigon administration uninterested in their problems or their culture, will begin to live with a government with at least some commitment to fighting traditional Vietnamese varieties...