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...Probably neither side. Hanoi will certainly claim victory over the U.S., but the outcome will probably be a military and political draw for the foreseeable future. Both Washington and Hanoi accepted compromises well short of their long-held goals...
...Brown's mordant dictum: "Violence is as American as cherry pie." In 1970 there were 16,000 criminal homicides in the nation-one every 33 minutes. With the carnage mounting-up 8% from the previous year and 76% over the decade-the U.S. is maintaining its long-held, unhappy distinction of leading advanced Western nations in the rate at which its citizens destroy one another. Philadelphia, for example, with a population of 2,000,000, has the same number of homicides annually as all of England, Scotland and Wales (pop. 54 million...
Only those who do not know Scoop Jackson would equate his many facets with opportunism. For nearly all his views represent long-held, frequently asserted convictions. No matter to him that they clash in the ordinary classification of politicians. Says he: "I'm a liberal, but I try not to be a damn fool." Jackson's problem is, however, that there are a great many people who do not know him, and in a crowded field of declared and undeclared Democratic candidates that could be fatal...
...describe past civilizations. In particular, the forgeries could lead to distrust of current archaeological concepts about ancient Anatolian culture. The Hacilar deposit was uncovered by British Archaeologist James Mellaart after he had been led to the spot by a Turkish farmer in 1956. Mellaart's find reversed the long-held belief that Anatolia, the area that is now Turkey, was only peripheral to the advanced Neolithic culture of Mesopotamia. So great was the wealth of the material found at Hacilar that some historians concluded that Anatolia, rather than Mesopotamia, was the cradle of civilization...
...revelations of the Pentagon papers angered war critics on Capitol Hill, who claimed vindication for their long-held feeling that Congress had been misled by the Executive Branch. "These documents," fumed Idaho Democrat Frank Church, "secure Johnson's position as a liar." Declared Maryland Republican Charles Mathias: "I am outraged?but I'm worn down with outrage." Yet the Congress made no immediate move to grasp control of the war from the Nixon Administration...