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...everything depends on getting the Vietnamese to fight each other with the same enthusiasm that Americans once fought the Vietnamese. And the Laos campaign, which tested the very best troops that the Saigon regime could muster, has demonstrated that the Saigon troops just can't or won't fight effectively. Thus the whole Vietnamization strategy may be disintegrating. The U. S. Command in Saigon evidently thinks so: its revelation of yesterday's disastrous casualty figures appears to have been intended to created pressure on Nixon to slow the withdrawal of U. S. troops from Vietnam...
...muster enough student support, will hold an obstructive picket line around Holyoke Center this morning at 8 a. m. to prevent the Visiting Committee of the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) from holding its annual meeting...
...highest historical moments fast disappear under the omissions of journalism, the perversions of television, and the sheer acceleration of history, and while our response to these moments is inevitably dulled, the events themselves are taking on a style and structure which laugh at any response we might happen to muster...
Fish and Men. The problem with such a broad plan is how to muster political support to carry it out. The Hilton Head Co. is eager to start, but other South Carolinians have deep reservations. J. Bonner Manly, director of the South Carolina Development Board, argues that the plan will take up to 20 years to complete-while hunger continues. Manly adds that he will seek far more industry for the region, because "I still put human beings ahead of birds and fish...
...another. Thant gallantly said that "regional considerations" should play no part in the choice of his successor, but they will. So will racial, religious, ideological and even emotional considerations. No one representing either of the superpowers or their closest allies has a chance. Yet a candidate must pass muster with both Washington and Moscow-the "Directorate," as Brazil's Ambassador João Augusto de Araujo Castro calls the superpowers...