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...well be that Americans will accept sacrifices, if only someone calls upon them for more than voluntary half measures. Just the other day, White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen was seen wearing his WIN (for WHIP INFLATION NOW) button upside down. In that position, Nessen explained, it spelled out NIM (for NO IMMEDIATE MIRACLES). Nobody is asking for miracles from Nessen's boss-just some firm decisions...
Despite Hanoi's powerful military hand, Sihanouk is at least the titular political leader of the K.I. Also increasingly prominent in the movement is an elusive trio known as "the Three Phantoms": Hou Youn, Hu Nim and Khieu Samphan, all members of the Assembly, who dropped from sight in 1967 and were later reported to be ministers in Sihanouk's government-in-exile. Their names frequently appear on documents and in radio broadcasts; in a recent interview with TIME, Sihanouk said that Khieu Samphan is his Premier and head of government. There is some doubt among Western intelligence...
...dream of what it must have been like in the old days, when herds of buffalo grazed the Western plains, when virgin glades were thick with elk and wild fowl. Game, they complain, is disappearing in the face of pollution, deforestation-and competition from the 17,999,999 other Nim-rods out there blazing away...
...weeks that followed I worked hard, dropping new words such as "co-operative," "social center," "adult education," "dispensary," and so on. I even pretended to know the Temne equivalents: kaw opaneh, nseth na kawol, karan ka na baki, nseth nim atui...
...wager a bottle of good bourbon that 4-3-2 is also a winning combination in Nim...