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Easiest Battle. Prospects for repeal of Fair Trade laws are bright: some states are moving toward repeal on their own. A far tougher fight may have to be waged against alphabet agencies that have become highly independent fiefdoms. So far, White House strategy has been 1) to urge these bureaucracies...
At the Pentagon, some senior officers compared the South Vietnamese rout with other military disasters: Napoleon's debacle in Moscow in 1812, the fall of France in 1940, the Chinese Nationalist collapse in 1949. Yet the troops of President Nguyen Van Thieu were not retreating in the face of a...
Thieu's obsessive reclusiveness has cost his country dearly in recent weeks. Apparently, after consulting only two close aides, he summarily ordered ARVN to abandon three provinces in the Central Highlands and the northernmost province of Quang Tri. Most Pentagon analysts acknowledge that on paper Thieu's strategy may have...
Breathing Space. At the same time as he announced that the canal would be reopened-in fact, Egyptian naval vessels have been sailing through the Suez for several weeks-Sadat agreed to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Sinai at least until July, a shorter extension...
One of the few domestic economic accomplishments of the Nixon Administration was to maneuver through Congress a 1973 law that dismantled most of the creaky, and costly, machinery of farm price supports and acreage allotments. Farm prices have shot up in a relatively free market for most of the past...