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...patently unacceptable to the U.S. What Washington could tolerate-if Thieu fell, or were pushed, from office-is a multifaceted nationalist government strong enough to resist domination by the Communists, at least for a respectable period, but flexible enough to negotiate with the NLF and Hanoi. Such an interim government would have to include members of the army, anti-Thieu factions in the present South Vietnamese Assembly, and representatives of the major religious groups: the Buddhists, the Catholics, and the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao sects...
...inspired the quip that "Both sides have a chairman, but neither has a leader." In the wake of the vote, the quip seemed fully justified. Recognizing that his government could be brought down by a no-confidence vote at any time, Brandt asked the opposition to agree to hold interim federal elections. Barzel replied that his party would agree to elections-but only after Brandt had resigned. Despite the ploys and counterploys, it seemed likely that elections would be held in the fall...
...interim choice is 55-year-old L. Patrick Gray III, a burly former Navy captain who has been a Nixon friend since they met at a Washington cocktail party in 1947. A graduate of George Washington University Law School, he served for a time as a legislative and legal assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Gray left the Navy in 1960 and worked in Nixon's presidential campaign against J.F.K., then joined the Administration in 1969 as an executive assistant in HEW. In 1970 he moved to the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General. Gray, who bears something...
Awesome Power. Others were not so sure. For all the guise of a basically noncontroversial interim appointment, an Administration had succeeded for the first time in almost 50 years in gaining political control of the FBI. Had Nixon selected a strong, less politically active permanent director-such as Supreme Court Justice Byron White or the Army Chief of Staff, General William Westmoreland-the new man might have preserved a measure of Hooverian independence. But by settling on a temporary director who has such close personal ties to the President, Nixon opened the way, in theory at least, for remote-control...
Complex Truth. If the sessions were long on rhetoric and short on concrete solutions, they did produce two specific results. A second meeting is scheduled for Washington, D.C., next year, and in the interim a manifesto will be drafted demanding that "working journalists" participate in their employers' decision making...